Synchronization in Scale-free Dynamical Networks: Robustness and Fragility

@misc{citeulike:1109171, abstract = {Recently, it has been demonstrated that many large complex networks display a scale-free feature, that is, their connectivity distributions have the power-law form. In this paper, we investigate the synchronization phenomena in a scale-free dynamical network. We show that its synchronizability is robust against random removal of nodes, but is fragile to specific removal of the most highly connected nodes.}, author = {Wang, Xiao F. and Chen, Guanrong }, citeulike-article-id = {1109171}, eprint = {cond-mat/0105014}, keywords = {complex\_system, network, robustness, scale\_free}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2007-02-16 00:42:15}, priority = {3}, title = {Synchronization in Scale-free Dynamical Networks: Robustness and Fragility}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105014}, year = {2001} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1109171 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1109171 TI - Synchronization in Scale-free Dynamical Networks: Robustness and Fragility N2 - Recently, it has been demonstrated that many large complex networks display a scale-free feature, that is, their connectivity distributions have the power-law form. In this paper, we investigate the synchronization phenomena in a scale-free dynamical network. We show that its synchronizability is robust against random removal of nodes, but is fragile to specific removal of the most highly connected nodes. KW - complex_system KW - network KW - robustness KW - scale_free AU - Wang, Xiao AU - Chen, Guanrong PY - 2001/May/18/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105014 ER -