Optimizing transport efficiency on scale-free networks through assortative or dissortative topology

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We find that transport on scale-free random networks depends strongly on degree-correlated network topologies whereas transport on Erdos-Renyi networks is insensitive to the degree correlation. An approach for the tuning of scale-free network transport efficiency through assortative or dissortative topology is proposed. We elucidate that the unique transport behavior for scale-free networks results from the heterogeneous distribution of degrees.