Asymptotical stability for complex dynamical networks via link dynamics

Abstract

From the perspective of large‐scale system, a complex dynamical network can be regarded as the interconnected system with the node subsystem and link subsystem, which implies that the node subsystem and the link subsystem are the two main bodies of dynamical behaviors of network. Therefore, the whole stability of network is influenced by not only the dynamics of node subsystem but also the dynamics of link subsystem. According to the above view, the wholly asymptotical stability (WAS) is defined in this paper for the complex dynamical network with the model of differential equations. The WAS is used to describe the node subsystem achieves asymptotical stability when link subsystem achieves also the asymptotic stability in Lyapunov sense. For the WAS of the complex dynamical network, the corresponding criteria are derived by checking whether certain matrices are Hurwitz. The analysis results show that even if the isolated nodes are not asymptotically stable in Lyapunov sense, employing the dynamics of link can also force the node subsystem to achieve the asymptotical stability. Finally, the simulation examples show the validity of methods in this paper.