Traffic Fluctuations on Weighted Networks

Details Traffic Fluctuations on Weighted Networks Traffic Fluctuations on Weighted Networks

2009-02-18

arxiv.org/abs/0902.3160v6

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

a paper with 11 pages, 6 figures, 40 references

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Traffic fluctuation has so far been studied on unweighted networks. However many real traffic systems are better represented as weighted networks, where nodes and links are assigned a weight value representing their physical properties such as capacity and delay. Here we introduce a general random diffusion (GRD) model to investigate the traffic fluctuation in weighted networks, where a random walk's choice of route is affected not only by the number of links a node has, but also by the weight of individual links. We obtain analytical solutions that characterise the relation between the average traffic and the fluctuation through nodes and links. Our analysis is supported by the results of numerical simulations. We observe that the value ranges of the average traffic and the fluctuation, through nodes or links, increase dramatically with the level of heterogeneity in link weight. This highlights the key role that link weight plays in traffic fluctuation and the necessity to study traffic fluctuation on weighted networks.

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