Study on some interconnecting bilayer networks

Abstract

We present a model, in which some nodes (called interconnecting nodes) in two networks merge and play the roles in both the networks. The model analytic and simulation discussions show a monotonically increasing dependence of interconnecting node topological position difference and a monotonically decreasing dependence of the interconnecting node number on function difference of both networks. The dependence function details do not influence the qualitative relationship. This online manuscript presents the details of the model simulation and analytic discussion, as well as the empirical investigations performed in eight real world bilayer networks. The analytic and simulation results with different dependence function forms show rather good agreement with the empirical conclusions.