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PRAMANA-JOURNAL OF PHYSICS
Volume 70, Issue 6, Pages 1109-1116Publisher
INDIAN ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1007/s12043-008-0115-z
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gradient mechanism; coefficient of betweenness centrality; waiting time
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We study message transfer in a 2-d communication network of regular nodes and randomly distributed hubs. We study both single message transfer and multiple message transfer on the lattice. The average travel time for single messages travelling between source and target pairs of fixed separations shows q-exponential behaviour as a function of hub density with a characteristic power-law tail, indicating a rapid drop in the average travel time as a function of hub density. This power-law tail arises as a consequence of the log-normal distribution of travel times seen at high hub densities. When many messages travel on the lattice, a congestion-decongestion transition can be seen. The waiting times of messages in the congested phase show a Gaussian distribution, whereas the decongested phase shows a log-normal distribution. Thus the waiting time distributions carry the signature of congested or decongested behaviour.
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