A Briefing Survey on Advances of Coupled Networks With Various Patterns

In real-world scenarios, networks do not exist in isolation but coupled together in different ways, including dependent, multi-support, and inter-connected patterns. And, when a coupled network suffers from structural instability or dynamic perturbations, the system with different coupling patterns shows rich phase transition behaviors. In this review, we present coupled network models with different coupling patterns developed from real scenarios in recent years for studying the system robustness. For the coupled networks with different coupling patterns, based on the network percolation theory, this paper mainly describes the influence of coupling patterns on network robustness. Moreover, for different coupling patterns, we here show readers the research background, research context, and the latest research results and applications. Furthermore, different approaches to improve system robustness with various coupling patterns and future possible research directions for coupled networks are explained and considered.

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Coupled networks in real-world scenarios exhibit rich phase transition behaviors when experiencing structural instability or dynamic perturbations with different coupling patterns. The influence of coupling patterns on network robustness is described, along with various approaches to improve system robustness and potential research directions for coupled networks.