title: Method to enhance traffic capacity for scale-free networks.
abstract: In this paper, a method is proposed to enhance the traffic handling capacity of scale-free networks by closing or cutting some links between some large-degree nodes, for both local routing strategy and global shortest-path routing strategy. The traffic capacity of networks is found to be considerably improved after applying the link-closing strategy, especially in the case of global routing. Due to the strongly improved network capacity, easy realization on networks, and low cost, the strategy may be useful for modern communication networks.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Zhe
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Mao-Bin
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Wen-Xu
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Qing-Song
authors.initials: QS
authors.lastname: Wu