Invulnerability of scale-free network against critical node failures based on a renewed cascading failure model

Xingzhao Peng, Hong Yao, Jun Du, Zhe Wang and Chao Ding

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2015, vol. 421, issue C, 69-77

Abstract: The invulnerability or robustness of complex networks against cascading failures under critical node failures is of great realistic meaning. Inspired by other related works, we propose a renewed cascading failure model which should be more suitable for real networks. In this model, the initial node loads are defined as a nonlinear function of the generalized betweenness with a power exponent α, and the local distribution strategy is adopted to assign the failed nodes’ loads to their neighbors. In frame of the BA network, an interesting conclusion is reached through numerical simulations: there is a threshold αT≈0.6, in the case of α>αT, attacking the nodes with larger loads is more prone to large scale cascading failures; while for α<αT, attacking the nodes with smaller loads will more easily lead to the whole network’s paralysis. Finally, we indicate that this phenomenon is rooted in the differences of initial loads distribution for different values of α.

Keywords: Complex network; Cascading failure; Scale-free network; Invulnerability; Control parameter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.11.024

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