title: Network growth with feedback.
abstract: Existing models of network growth typically have one or two parameters or strategies which are fixed for all times. We introduce a general framework where feedback on the current state of a network is used to dynamically alter the values of such parameters. A specific model is analyzed where limited resources are shared among arriving nodes, all vying to connect close to the root. We show that tunable feedback leads to growth of larger, more efficient networks. Exact results show that linear scaling of resources with system size yields crossover to a trivial condensed state, which can be considerably delayed with sublinear scaling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA. rmdsouza@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Raissa M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: D'Souza
authors.forename: Soumen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roy