A network growth mechanism based on a two-step preferential rule is investigated as a model of network growth in which no global knowledge of the network is required. In the first filtering step a subset of fixed size m of existing nodes is randomly chosen. In the second step the preferential...

Reduced dimensionality in two dimensions is a topic of current interest. We use model systems to investigate the statistical mechanics of ideal networks. The tilings have possible applications such as the 2D locations of pore sites in nanoporous arrays (quantum dots), in the 2D hexagonal...

Based on the BBV model [A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A. Vespignani, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (22) (2004)], we propose a weighted group preferential model, which is generated by the group preferential mechanism. We derive analytically the various statistical properties, such as the distribution of...

In two different classes of network models, namely, the Watts Strogatz type and the Euclidean type, subtle changes have been introduced in the randomness. In the Watts Strogatz type network, rewiring has been done in different ways and although the qualitative results remain the same, finite...

In this paper, we present a novel local-world model of wireless sensor networks (WSN) with two kinds of nodes: sensor nodes and sink nodes, which is different from other models with identical nodes and links. The model balances energy consumption by limiting the connectivity of sink nodes to...

Statistical properties of position-dependent ball-passing networks in real football games are examined. We find that the networks have the small-world property, and their degree distributions are fitted well by a truncated gamma distribution function. In order to reproduce these properties of...

In many real-world networks, the number of links increases non-linearly with the number of nodes. Models of such accelerated growth have been considered earlier with deterministic and stochastic number of links. Here we consider stochastic accelerated growth in a network where links are...

In order to explore further the mechanism responsible for scale-free networks, we introduce two extended models of the BA model. The model A, where the system incorporates the addition of new links between existing nodes, a new node with new links and the rewiring of some links at every time...

In this paper, a new topological approach for studying a sufficiently long random number sequence is proposed. By segmenting the sequence into groups of digits which represent the node identities while the undirected edges symbolize the adjacency between them, a network is constructed for...

This paper proposes a network model to understand the scale-free property of directed networks. The proposed model assigns two intrinsic variables (incoming and outgoing weights) to every node. A directed link is established from node i to node j if the sum of the outgoing weight of node i and...