Synchronization of linear dynamical networks under stochastic impulsive coupling protocols

This paper investigates a stochastic impulsive coupling protocol for synchronization of linear dynamical networks based on discrete-time sampled-data. The convergence of the networks under the proposed protocol is discussed, and some sufficient conditions are showed to guarantee almost sure exponential synchronization. Moreover, this coupling protocol with a pinning control scheme is developed to lead the state of all nodes to almost sure exponentially converge to a virtual synchronization target. It is shown that the almost sure exponential synchronization can be achieved by only interacting based on the stochastic feedback information at discrete-time instants. Some numerical examples are finally provided to present the effectiveness of the proposed stochastic coupling protocols.