Modeling and Study of Information Transfer in Complex Network

One of the most important objectives of studying complex network is to reveal the dynamic behavior of network, to research the information transfer and to explore the influence of static or dynamic network structure on information transfer. This paper proposed a modified model, called the Swapped Transfer Model (STM) of information in complex network. The model formulates multiple aspects of information transfer and introduces the information growth factor. It simulates the information transfer in complex network based on ‘swapping’ ideas. Through the STM model, some special rules of information transfer are studied and analyzed thoroughly. Experiments show that information is transferring quickly in the small-world network. The transferring process is affected by different (internal and external) parameters (factors) which are examined through the dedicated parameters-separated experiments.