Volume 29, Issue 5 pp. 603-613
Research Article

Pinning synchronization of complex networks with delayed nodes

Wanli Guo

Wanli Guo

School of Mathematics and Physics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China

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Shihua Chen

Corresponding Author

Shihua Chen

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Correspondence to: S. Chen, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.

E-mail: [email protected]

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Austin Francis

Austin Francis

Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic, Hong Kong

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First published: 02 June 2014
Citations: 5

Summary

This paper reveals the dynamical mechanism of synchronization in general complex networks with delayed nodes. It considers, in particular, the global synchronization of complex networks without assuming any symmetry in the coupling matrix by using pinning controllers. Sufficient conditions for global synchronization are obtained by suitably adding linear and adaptive feedback controllers to a certain sub-collection of the nodes and numerical examples that are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the theory. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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