2002/07/09 by Bosiljka Tadic, G. J. Rodgers
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.stat-mech
published as Advances in Complex Systems Vol. 5, p. 445-456 (2002)
arxiv created 2002/07/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We introduce a model of information packet transport on networks in which the packets are posted by a given rate and move in parallel according to a local search algorithm. By performing a number of simulations we investigate the major kinetic properties of the transport as a function of the network geometry, the packet input rate and the buffer size. We find long-range correlations in the power spectra of arriving packet density and the network's activity bursts. The packet transit time distribution shows a power-law dependence with average transit time increasing with network size. This implies dynamic queueing on the network, in which many interacting queues are mutually driven by temporally correlated packet streams.