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Widespread use of computer networks and the use of varied technology for the interconnection of computers has made congestion a significant problem. In this report, we summarize our research on congestion avoidance. We compare the concept…

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Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

This work presents a new method to quantify connectivity in transportation networks. Inspired by the field of topological data analysis, we propose a novel approach to explore the robustness of road network connectivity in the presence of…

With the tremendous increase of the Internet traffic, achieving the best performance with limited resources is becoming an extremely urgent problem. In order to address this concern, in this paper, we build an optimization problem which…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-23 Li Rui , Xia Yongxiang , Tse K Chi

Effective traffic optimization strategies can improve the performance of transportation networks significantly. Most exiting works develop traffic optimization strategies depending on the local traffic states of congested road segments,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Fengkun Gao , Bo Yang , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan , Yang Zhang

Numerous networks, such as transportation, distribution and delivery networks optimize their designs in order to increase efficiency and lower costs, improving the stability of its intended functions, etc. Networks that distribute goods,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-26 Fabricio L. Forgerini , Orahcio F. de Sousa

The central points of communication network flow has often been identified using graph theoretical centrality measures. In real networks, the state of traffic density arises from an interplay between the dynamics of the flow and the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Petter Holme

Traffic congestion has become an inevitable challenge in large cities due to population increases and expansion of urban areas. Various approaches are introduced to mitigate traffic issues, encompassing from expanding the road…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-06 Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maged Dessouky

We study the problem of routing vehicles with energy constraints through a network where there are at least some charging nodes. We seek to minimize the total elapsed time for vehicles to reach their destinations by determining routes as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Tao Wang , Christos G. Cassandras , Sepideh Pourazarm

Traffic congestion has large economic and social costs. The introduction of autonomous vehicles can potentially reduce this congestion, both by increasing network throughput and by enabling a social planner to incentivize users of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Erdem Bıyık , Daniel Lazar , Ramtin Pedarsani , Dorsa Sadigh

We study a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks, simple enough to get analytical results, but with a very rich phenomenology, presenting continuous, discontinuous as well as hybrid phase transitions between a free-flow phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili

One abstract method for the study of network transportation is proposed in this paper. By interpolating the properties of the edges that constitute network into the two leading parameters of the nodes, this method can abstract the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang Yun-Feng , Xu Cai

Transportation and distribution networks are a class of spatial networks that have been of interest in recent years. These networks are often characterized by the presence of complex structures such as central loops paired with peripheral…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-01-23 Sebastiano Bontorin , Giulia Cencetti , Riccardo Gallotti , Bruno Lepri , Manlio De Domenico

Congestion and extreme events in transportation networks are emergent phenomena with significant socio-economic implications. In this work, we study congestion and extreme event properties on real urban street (planar) networks drawn from…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-22 Ajay Agarwal , M. S. Santhanam

We study network traffic dynamics in a two dimensional communication network with regular nodes and hubs. If the network experiences heavy message traffic, congestion occurs due to finite capacity of the nodes. We discuss strategies to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-08 Neelima Gupte , Brajendra K. Singh

We study the information traffic in Barab\'asi-Albert scale free networks wherein each node has finite queue length to store the packets. It is found that in the case of shortest path routing strategy the networks undergo a first order…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-09-15 Zhi-Xi Wu , Wen-Xu Wang , Kai-Hau Yeung

We study traffic flow on roads with a localized periodic inhomogeneity such as traffic signals, using a stochastic car-following model. We find that in cases of congestion, traffic flow can be optimized by controlling the inhomogeneity's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elad Tomer , Leonid Safonov , Nilly Madar , Shlomo Havlin

Traffic congestion has lead to an increasing emphasis on management measures for a more efficient utilization of existing infrastructure. In this context, this paper proposes a novel framework that integrates real-time optimization of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Samarth Gupta , Ravi Seshadri , Bilge Atasoy , A. Arun Prakash , Francisco Pereira , Gary Tan , Moshe Ben-Akiva

Complex network states are characterized by the interplay between system's structure and dynamics. One way to represent such states is by means of network density matrices, whose von Neumann entropy characterizes the number of distinct…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-12-06 Arsham Ghavasieh , Manlio De Domenico

We define a minimal model of traffic flows in complex networks containing the most relevant features of real routing schemes, i.e. a trade--off strategy between topological-based and traffic-based routing. The resulting collective behavior,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniele De Martino , Luca Dall'Asta , Ginestra Bianconi , Matteo Marsili