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Random-Walk Access Times on Partially Disordered Complex Networks: An Effective Medium Theory
Physical Review E
  • Julian Candia
  • V. M. Kenkre
  • Paul Ernest Parris, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

An analytic effective medium theory is constructed to study the mean access times for random walks on hybrid disordered structures formed by embedding complex networks into regular lattices, considering transition rates F that are different for steps across lattice bonds from the rates f across network shortcuts. The theory is developed for structures with arbitrary shortcut distributions and applied to a class of partially disordered traversal enhanced networks in which shortcuts of fixed length are distributed randomly with finite probability. Numerical simulations are found to be in excellent agreement with predictions of the effective medium theory on all aspects addressed by the latter. Access times for random walks on these partially disordered structures are compared to those on small-world networks, which on average appear to provide the most effective means of decreasing access times uniformly across the network.

Department(s)
Physics
Sponsor(s)
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Keywords and Phrases
  • Complex Networks,
  • Random Processes,
  • Numerical analysis
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2008 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
6-1-2008
Publication Date
01 Jun 2008
Disciplines
Citation Information
Julian Candia, V. M. Kenkre and Paul Ernest Parris. "Random-Walk Access Times on Partially Disordered Complex Networks: An Effective Medium Theory" Physical Review E (2008) ISSN: 1539-3755; 2470-0045
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paul-parris/9/