Abstract
This paper investigates a new cluster synchronization scheme in the nonlinear coupled complex dynamical networks with nonidentical nodes. The controllers are designed based on the community structure of the networks; some sufficient criteria are derived to ensure cluster synchronization of the network model. Particularly, the weight configuration matrix is not assumed to be symmetric, irreducible. The numerical simulations are performed to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
1. Introduction
Complex networks model is used to describe various interconnected systems of real world, which have become a focal research topic and have drawn much attention from researchers working in different fields; one of the most important reasons is that most practical systems can be modeled by complex dynamical networks. Recently, the research on synchronization and dynamical behavior analysis of complex network systems has become a new and important direction in this field [1–13]; many control approaches have been developed to synchronize complex networks such as feedback control, adaptive control, pinning control, impulsive control, and intermittent control [14–21].
Cluster synchronization means that nodes in the same group synchronize with each other, but there is no synchronization between nodes in different groups [22–25]; Belykh et al. [26] investigated systems of diffusively coupled identical chaotic oscillators; an effective method to determine the possible states of cluster synchronization and ensure their stability is presented. The method, which may find applications in communication engineering and other fields of science and technology, is illustrated through concrete examples of coupled biological cell models. Wu and Lu [27] investigated cluster synchronization in the adaptive complex dynamical networks with nonidentical nodes by a local control method and a novel adaptive strategy for the coupling strengths of the networks. Ma et al. [28] proposed cluster synchronization scheme via dominant intracouplings and common intercluster couplings. Sorrentino and Ott [29] studied local cluster synchronization for bipartite systems, where no intracluster couplings (driving scheme) exist. Chen and Lu [30] investigated global cluster synchronization in networks of two clusters with inter- and intracluster couplings. Belykh et al. [31, 26] studied this problem in 1D and 2D lattices of coupled identical dynamical systems. Lu et al. [32] studied the cluster synchronization of general networks with nonidentical clusters and derived sufficient conditions for achieving local cluster synchronization of networks. Recently, Wang et al. [33] considered the cluster synchronization of dynamical networks with community structure and nonidentical nodes and with identical local dynamics for all individual nodes in each community by using pinning control schemes. However, there is few theoretical result on the cluster synchronization of nonlinear coupled complex networks with time-varying delays coupling and time-varying delays in nonidentical dynamical nodes.
Motivated by the above discussions, this paper investigates cluster synchronization in the nonlinear coupled complex dynamical networks with nonidentical nodes. The controllers are designed based on the community structure of the networks; some sufficient criteria are derived to ensure cluster synchronization in nonlinear coupled complex dynamical networks with time-varying delays coupling and time-varying delays in dynamic nodes. Particularly the weight configuration matrix is not assumed to be symmetric, irreducible.
The paper is organized as follows: the network model is introduced followed by some definitions, lemmas, and hypotheses in Section 2. The cluster synchronization of the complex coupled networks is discussed in Section 3. Simulations are obtained in Section 4. Finally, in Section 5 the various conclusions are discussed.
2. Model and Preliminaries
The network with nondelayed and time-varying delays coupling and adaptive coupling strengths can be described by where is the state vector of node describes the local dynamics of nodes in the th community. For any pair of nodes and , if , that is, nodes and belong to different communities, then , is a time-varying delay. and are nonlinear functions. is coupling strength. are the weight configuration matrices. If there is a connection from node to node , then the otherwise, , and the diagonal elements of matrix are defined as Particularly, the weight configuration matrix is not assumed to be symmetric, irreducible.
When the control inputs and are introduced, the controlled dynamical network with respect to network (2.1) can be written as where denotes all the nodes in the th community and represents the nodes in the th community which have direct links with the nodes in other communities.
The study presents the mathematical definition of the cluster synchronization.
Let denote communities of the networks and If node belongs to the th community, then we denote . We employ to represent the local dynamics of all nodes in the th community. Let be the solution of the system where the set is used as the cluster synchronization manifold for network (2.3). Cluster synchronization can be realized if and only if the manifold is stable.
Definition 2.1 (see [19]). The error variables as for , where satisfies .
Definition 2.2 (see [19]). Let be the nodes of the network and be the communities, respectively. A network with communities is said to realize cluster synchronization if and for .
Lemma 2.3. For any two vectors and , a matrix with compatible dimensions, one has .
Assumption 2.4. For the vector valued function , assuming that there exist positive constants such that f satisfies the semi-Lipschitz condition for all and .
Assumption 2.5. and is a differential function with and . Clearly, this assumption is certainly ensured if the delay and is constant.
Assumption 2.6 (34) (Global Lipschitz Condition). Suppose that there exist nonnegative constants , for all , such that for any time-varying vectors where denotes the 2-norm throughout the paper.
3. Main Results
In this section, a control scheme is developed to synchronize a delayed complex network with nonidentical nodes to any smooth dynamics . Let synchronization errors for , according to system (2.1), the error dynamical system can be derived as where for .
According to the diffusive coupling condition (2.2) of the matrix we have On the basis of this property, for achieving cluster synchronization, we design controllers as follows: where .
Theorem 3.1. Suppose assumptions 2.4–2.5 hold. Consider the network (2.1) via control law (3.3). If the following conditions hold: where . Then, the systems (2.3) is cluster synchronization.
Proof. Construct the following Lyapunov functional:
Calculating the derivative of , we have
By assumptions 2.4–2.6, we obtain
Let , where represents the Kronecker product. Then
By the Lemma 2.3, we have
Therefore, if we have then
Theorem 3.1 is proved completely.
We can conclude that, for any initial values, the solutions of the system (2.3) satisfy , that is, we get the global stability of the cluster synchronization manifold . Therefore, cluster synchronization in the network (2.3) is achieved under the local controllers (3.3). This completes the proof.
Corollary 3.2. When , network (2.1) is translated into
We design the controllers, as follows, then the complex networks can also achieve synchronization, where
Corollary 3.3. When , network (2.1) is translated into
We design the controllers, as follows, then the complex networks can also achieve synchronization, where
4. Illustrative Examples
In this section, a numerical example will be given to demonstrate the validity of the synchronization criteria obtained in the previous sections. Considering the following network: where .
In simulation, we choose , Taking the weight configuration coupling matrices The following quantities are utilized to measure the process of cluster synchronization where is the error of cluster synchronization for this controlled network (2.2); , , and are the errors between two communities; cluster synchronization is achieved if the synchronization error converges to zero and and do not as . Simulation results are given in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4. From the Figures 1–4, we see the time evolution of the synchronization errors. The numerical results show that Theorem 3.1 is effective.
5. Conclusions
The problems of cluster synchronization and adaptive feedback controller for the nonlinear coupled complex networks are investigated. The weight configuration matrix is not assumed to be symmetric, irreducible. It is shown that cluster synchronization can be realized via adaptive feedback controller. The study showed that the use of simple control law helps to derive sufficient criteria which ensure that nodes in the same group synchronize with each other, but there is no synchronization between nodes in different groups is derived. Particularly the synchronization criteria are independent of time delay. The developed techniques are applied three complex community networks which are synchronized to different chaotic trajectories. Finally, the numerical simulations were performed to verify the effectiveness of the theoretical results.
Acknowledgments
This research is partially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (no. 70871056) and by the Six Talents Peak Foundation of Jiangsu Province.