title: Structural Controllability of Temporal Networks with a Single Switching Controller.
abstract: Temporal network, whose topology evolves with time, is an important class of complex networks. Temporal trees of a temporal network describe the necessary edges sustaining the network as well as their active time points. By a switching controller which properly selects its location with time, temporal trees are used to improve the controllability of the network. Therefore, more nodes are controlled within the limited time. Several switching strategies to efficiently select the location of the controller are designed, which are verified with synthetic and empirical temporal networks to achieve better control performance.
authors.affiliation: Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.|Research Center of Smart Networks & Systems, School of Information Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.affiliation: Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.|Research Center of Smart Networks & Systems, School of Information Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Bao-Yu
authors.initials: BY
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.affiliation: Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Yu-Jian
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.affiliation: Adaptive Networks and Control Lab, Department of Electronic Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.|Research Center of Smart Networks & Systems, School of Information Science & Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li