Network connectivity under node failure

Pascal Billand, Christophe Bravard, Sitharama S. Iyengar, Rajnish Kumar () and Sudipta Sarangi

Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 149, issue C, 164-167

Abstract: We examine a non-cooperative model of network formation where players may stop functioning. We identify conditions under which Nash and efficient networks will remain connected after the loss of k nodes by introducing the notion of k-Node Super Connectivity.

Keywords: Connectivity; Node failure; Nash networks; Efficient networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C7 D8 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2016.10.028

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