Traffic flow and efficient routing on scale-free networks: A survey

Recently, motivated by the pioneer works in revealing the small-world effect and scale-free property of various real-life networks, many scientists devote themselves to studying complex networks. In this paper, we give a brief review on the studies of traffic flow and efficient routing on scale-free networks, including the traffic dynamics based on global routing protocol, Traffic dynamics based on local routing protocol, and the critical phenomena and scaling behaviors of real and artificial traffic. Finally, perspectives and some interesting problems are proposed.