Layered complex networks.

By Maciej Kurant, Patrick Thiran. Physical Review Letters, 2005

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Many complex networks are only a part of larger systems, where a number of coexisting topologies interact and depend on each other. We introduce a layered model to facilitate the description and analysis of such systems. As an example of its application, we study the load distribution in three transportation systems, where the lower layer is the physical infrastructure and the upper layer represents the traffic flows. This layered view allows us to capture the fundamental differences between the real load and commonly used load estimators, which explains why these estimators fail to approximate the real load.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Multilayer networks (2013, background): “A type of multilayer network of particular relevance for telecommunication networks (such as the internet) is a “hierarchical multilayer network”, in which the bottom layer constitutes a “physical” network and the remaining layers are “virtual layers” that operate on top of the physical layer [192, ”
Human mobility: Models and applications (2017, background): “The fact that a single transport network can be represented in multiple ways, naturally paved the way for the use of multilayer structures [203, 204].”
Understanding Road Usage Patterns in Urban Areas (2012, background): “The betweenness centrality b c of a road segment 27–30 is proportional to the number of shortest paths between all pairs of nodes passing through it: we measured b c by averaging over each pair of nodes, andfollowing the shortesttime todestination.”
The structure and dynamics of multilayer networks (2014, neutral): “Interdependent (or layered) networks [25,34,35].”
Modelling interdependent infrastructures using interacting dynamical models (2008, background): “Recent works have reported on layered networks (Kurant and Thiran, 2006) where several homogenous networks (i.”