Motivation
Real-world networks evolve to fulfill a main function, which is often to transport entities such as information, cars, power, water, etc. All these large-scale networks mentioned above are non-globally designed. They evolve and grow through local changes, through a natural selection-like dynamics. For example, if a router on the Internet is frequently congested and packets are lost or delayed due to that, it will get replaced by several interconnected new routers. Recent research investigate the connection between network topology and the flow efficiency of the transportation.
The flow is often generated or influenced by local gradients of a scalar, for example: electric current driven by a gradient of electric potential; in the information networks, properties of nodes will generate a bias in the way of information is transmitted from a node to its neighbors. This idea motivated the approach through gradient networks which studies flow efficiency on the network when the flow is driven by gradients of a scalar field distributed on the network
Read more about this topic: Gradient Network
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