Periodic consensus in network systems with general distributed processing delays

Yicheng Liu; Yipeng Chen; Jun Wu; Xiao Wang; Yicheng Liu; Yipeng Chen; Jun Wu; Xiao Wang

doi:10.3934/nhm.2021002

Networks and Heterogeneous Media

2021, Volume 16, Issue 1: 139-153. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2021002

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Periodic consensus in network systems with general distributed processing delays

Yicheng Liu ^{1
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Yipeng Chen ^{1
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Jun Wu ^{2
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Xiao Wang ¹

1.
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, 410073, P. R. China
2.
College of Mathematics and Statistics, Changsha University of Science Technology, Changsha, 410076, P. R. China

Received: 01 September 2020 Revised: 01 November 2020 Published: 21 December 2020
Primary: 93C23, 93D09, 93C95

How to understand the dynamical consensus patterns in network systems is of particular significance in both theories and applications. In this paper, we are interested in investigating the influences of distributed processing delay on the consensus patterns in a network model. As new observations, we show that the desired network model undergoes both weak consensus and periodic consensus behaviors when the parameters reach a threshold value and the connectedness of the network system may be absent. In results, some criterions of weak consensus and periodic consensus with exponential convergent rate are established by the standard functional differential equations analysis. An analytic formula is given to calculate the asymptotic periodic consensus in terms of model parameters and the initial time interval. Also, we post the threshold values for some typical distributions included uniform distribution and Gamma distribution. Finally, we give the numerical simulation and analyse the influences of different delays on the consensus.
- Weak consensus,
- periodic consensus,
- differential system,
- processing delay,
- Gamma distribution delay
Citation: Yicheng Liu, Yipeng Chen, Jun Wu, Xiao Wang. Periodic consensus in network systems with general distributed processing delays[J]. Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2021, 16(1): 139-153. doi: 10.3934/nhm.2021002

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Abstract

How to understand the dynamical consensus patterns in network systems is of particular significance in both theories and applications. In this paper, we are interested in investigating the influences of distributed processing delay on the consensus patterns in a network model. As new observations, we show that the desired network model undergoes both weak consensus and periodic consensus behaviors when the parameters reach a threshold value and the connectedness of the network system may be absent. In results, some criterions of weak consensus and periodic consensus with exponential convergent rate are established by the standard functional differential equations analysis. An analytic formula is given to calculate the asymptotic periodic consensus in terms of model parameters and the initial time interval. Also, we post the threshold values for some typical distributions included uniform distribution and Gamma distribution. Finally, we give the numerical simulation and analyse the influences of different delays on the consensus.

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