Designing temporal networks that synchronize under resource constraints.

ABSTRACT: Being fundamentally a non-equilibrium process, synchronization comes with unavoidable energy costs and has to be maintained under the constraint of limited resources. Such resource constraints are often reflected as a finite coupling budget available in a network to facilitate interaction and communication. Here, we show that introducing temporal variation in the network structure can lead to efficient synchronization even when stable synchrony is impossible in any static network under the given budget, thereby demonstrating a fundamental advantage of temporal networks. The temporal networks generated by our open-loop design are versatile in the sense of promoting synchronization for systems with vastly different dynamics, including periodic and chaotic dynamics in both discrete-time and c

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169648 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature