The effect of capacity redundancy disparity on the robustness of interconnected networks

Yongxiang Xia, Wenping Zhang and Xuejun Zhang

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 447, issue C, 561-568

Abstract: Cascading failures in interconnected networks have received more and more attention. In previous works, the basic assumption is that networks share the same capacity redundancy. However, this setting cannot capture the real case very well. Hence, in this paper, we analyze the effect of capacity redundancy disparity on the robustness of interconnected networks. In isolated networks, it is well known that the complex network’s robustness can be improved by increasing its capacity redundancy. In interconnected networks where two networks share the same capacity redundancy, the similar result holds. Yet this result is not necessarily true in interconnected networks where two networks are different in capacity redundancy. We find that when the capacity redundancy of one network is fixed, the robustness of the whole system may not follow another network’s capacity redundancy. More specifically, when the fixed network’s capacity redundancy is very small or very large, the robustness of the whole system increases as another network’s capacity redundancy increases. But there exists a certain range within which the increase of one network’s capacity redundancy results in the robustness decline of the whole system. This counterintuitive feature appears under different coupling patterns such as assortative, disassortative, or random coupling. This result advances our understanding of the robustness of interconnected networks.

Keywords: Interconnected networks; Cascading failures; Robustness; Capacity redundancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.12.077

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