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We propose a macroscopic traffic network flow model suitable for analysis as a dynamical system, and we qualitatively analyze equilibrium flows as well as convergence. Flows at a junction are determined by downstream supply of capacity as…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-25 Samuel Coogan , Murat Arcak

For many power-limited networks, such as wireless sensor networks and mobile ad hoc networks, maximizing the network lifetime is the first concern in the related designing and maintaining activities. We study the network lifetime from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Xianxia Yang , Cunlai Pu , Meichen Yan , Rajput Ramiz Sharafat , Jian Yang

The packet is the fundamental unit of transportation in modern communication networks such as the Internet. Physical layer scheduling decisions are made at the level of packets, and packet-level models with exogenous arrival processes have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-05 Ciamac Moallemi , Devavrat Shah

In this paper, we study traffic dynamics in scale-free networks in which packets are generated with non-homogeneously selected sources and destinations, and forwarded based on the local routing strategy. We consider two situations of packet…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Jiang , Mao-Bin Hu , Wen-Xu Wang , Gang Yan , Qing-Song Wu , Bing-Hong Wang

The emergence of congestion is a critical phenomenon in transport systems. Transport is organized along pathways abstracted by links, which connect different nodes as regions to form the network. The modeling of traffic has so far mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-03-23 Zhidong He

The communication networks in real world often couple with each other to save costs, which results in any network does not have a stand-alone function and efficiency. To investigate this, in this paper we propose a transportation model on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-12-19 Ming Li , Mao-Bin Hu , Bing-Hong Wang

Complex networks describe a wide range of systems in nature and society, much quoted examples including the cell, a network of chemicals linked by chemical reactions, or the Internet, a network of routers and computers connected by physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Reka Albert , Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Recent studies on transportation networks have shown that real-time route guidance can inadvertently induce congestion or oscillatory traffic patterns. Nevertheless, such technologies also offer a promising opportunity to manage traffic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Shaya Garjani , Ashish Cherukuri , Bayu Jayawardhana , Nima Monshizadeh

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

In transportation networks, a spontaneous jamming transition is often observed, e.g in urban road networks and airport networks. Because of this instability, flow distribution is significantly imbalanced on a macroscopic level. To mitigate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-27 Takahiro Ezaki , Ryosuke Nishi , Katsuhiro Nishinari

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…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

A microscopic description of packet transport in the Internet by using a simple cellular automaton model is presented. A generalised exclusion process is introduced which allows to study travel times of the particles ('data packets') along…

Models for the dynamics of congestion control generally involve systems of coupled differential equations. Universally, these models assume that traffic sources saturate the maximum transmissions allowed by the congestion control method.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Harvinder Lehal , Natchanon Luangsomboon , Jörg Liebeherr

Internet is known to display a highly heterogeneous structure and complex fluctuations in its traffic dynamics. Congestion seems to be an inevitable result of user's behavior coupled to the network dynamics and it effects should be…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Sergi Valverde , Ricard V. Sole

Recently, De Martino et al have presented a general framework for the study of transportation phenomena on complex networks. One of their most significant achievements was a deeper understanding of the phase transition from the uncongested…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-05-30 Norbert Barankai , Attila Fekete , Gábor Vattay

Transport networks are crucial to the functioning of natural and technological systems. Nature features transport networks that are adaptive over a vast range of parameters, thus providing an impressive level of robustness in supply.…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2017-11-28 Erik Andreas Martens , Konstantin Klemm

Understanding the dynamics of traffic clusters is crucial for enhancing urban transportation systems, particularly in managing congestion and free-flow states. This study applies computational percolation theory to analyze the formation and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-30 Yongsung Kwon , Minjin Lee , Mi Jin Lee , Seung-Woo Son

This paper introduces a new macroscopic perspective for simulating transportation networks. The idea is to look at the network as connected nodes. Each node sends an information package to its neighbors. Basically, the information package…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Omar Mansour , Tomer Toledo , Shadi Haj-Yahia , Wafa Elias

We model information traffic on scale-free networks by introducing the node queue length L proportional to the node degree and its delivering ability C proportional to L. The simulation gives the overall capacity of the traffic system,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Mao-Bin Hu , Wen-Xu Wang , Rui Jiang , Qing-Song Wu , Yong-Hong Wu

Using the formalism of the biased random walk in random uncorrelated networks with arbitrary degree distributions, we develop theoretical approach to the critical packet generation rate in traffic based on routing strategy with local…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Piotr Fronczak