Synchronization in a power-driven moving agent network

  • Huan Shi
  • , Lei Wang*
  • , Hua ping Dai
  • , You xian Sun
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Motivated by the fact that couplings between individual units of many real-world complex systems are relevant to energy, we propose a power-driven moving agent network model as a simple representation. The presented network exhibits a directed and time-varying topological structure, where each agent associated with a chaotic oscillator is depicted as a random walker in a planar space, and interactions among agents are established via communication by assigning different emission powers to them. To investigate the effect of power distribution, synchronization is further explored for the power-driven moving agent network. Under the constraint of fast-switching, we theoretically show that synchronization of the agent network is determined by the power density which is independent of both the power distribution and the size of network. Several numerical simulations are given to validate the acquired results.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3094-3100
Number of pages7
JournalPhysica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Volume389
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Aug 2010

Keywords

  • Complex networks
  • Fast-switching synchronization
  • Moving agents
  • Power density

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