The synchrony preferential mechanism in complex networks is investigated in a novel synchronization-preferential growing network model proposed. Compared with the BA scale-free model [A.L. Barabási, H. Jeong, R. Albert, Physica A 272 (1999) 173.] and the synchronization-optimal network model...

In this paper, we study the cascading failure in Watts–Strogatz small-world networks. We find that this network model has a heterogeneous betweenness distribution, although its degree distribution is homogeneous. Further study shows that this small-world network is robust to random attack but...

Recent advances in complex network research have stimulated increasing interests in understanding the relationship between the topology and dynamics of complex networks. In this work, we study the synchronizability of a class of continuous-time dynamical networks with scale-free topologies....