Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 143, 253-255 (2007)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2007-00097-7

A model to study the scaling of traffic fluctuations on complex networks

Departament d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43007 Tarragona, Spain

Abstract

In a recent article, we studied the dynamics of traffic in complex networks [CITE]. In particular, we computed how the fluctuations scale with the mean, σ∼〈f 〉^α. Using a general model which includes nodes with finite capacity we found a continuous range of α values between 1/2 and 1. Here we resume the results, adding a brief analysis about the self-similarity of the traffic dynamics in our model.