Adaptive coupling synchronization in complex network with uncertain boundary

It is difficult that all the boundaries of chaotic system were estimated precisely; this is why the coupling coefficient cannot be determined beforehand in the problem of synchronization of complex networks. Thus, an estimation of coupling coefficient should be given before designing some controllers. In addition, to realize the synchronization, the estimated coupling coefficient has to be large enough. However, it is not true that the larger the coupling coefficient the better the synchronization is. In fact, a coupling coefficient which is larger than what it needs to be means the energy waste. To overcome this difficulty, in this paper we propose an adaptive coupling method. And a new concept about asymptotic stability is presented. Numerical simulations are implemented on different complex networks. The results indicate that the synchronization can be achieved without a large estimated coefficient.