Synchronization for complex networks with randomly occurring coupling delays via passivity

This paper deals with the synchronization problem for complex networks under the passivity framework. In particular, the randomly occurring coupling delays are taken into account to describe more complicated dynamics in the real world. By means of stochastic analysis, delay-dependent sufficient synchronization criteria can be given for ensuring the desired passivity performance by matrix techniques. With the established conditions being satisfied, the designing procedure for the synchronization controller is proposed. Finally, we give an illustrative example for illustrating the efficiency of our synchronization strategy.