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Stochastic resonance for information flows on hierarchical networks |
Agnieszka Czaplicka , Janusz A. Hołyst |
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics, Koszykowa 75, Warszawa 00-662, Poland |
Abstract |
A simple model of information flows represented by package delivery on networks with hierarchical structures is considered. The packages should be transfered from one network node to another and the delivery process is influenced by two types of noise. The first one is related to a diffusive part in a packet dynamics, i.e. package paths do not follow from completly deterministic rules. The second one is related to partialy false knowledge of network topology, i.e. addresses tables in shipping algorithm include a number of errors. In both cases we observe a resonance-like phenomenon for communication efficiency, i.e. the system performance measured as a fraction of packages that are delivered in a certain time period is maximal for an intermediate level of noise. The effect resembles the phenomenon of stochastic resonance existing in many complex systems. The resonance occurs also for a network formed by former Enron Company employees. |
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