Abnormal dynamics of cascading edge failures with congestion effect

Jianwei Wang, Jialu He (), Wei Chen () and Bo Xu ()
Additional contact information
Jianwei Wang: School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China
Jialu He: School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China
Wei Chen: School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China
Bo Xu: School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2018, vol. 29, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: Considering congestion effects in realistic network environments, we give a new method to adjust dynamically adjust the weight of the congested edge. We calculate the load on an edge based on the revised betweenness method and propose a novel model with three states of edges to investigate the dynamics of cascading failures in the ring network, the BA scale-free network, and the real traffic networks in London. By two robust metrics, we surprisingly observe the abnormal dynamics of cascading propagation, especially compared with that in the unadjustable weight, the curves of cascading dynamics in the adjustable weight are more irregular, which means that enhancing the capacity of each edge is not always better to avoid the cascading propagation. In addition, our simulation results show that the dynamical change of the edge’s weight makes the heterogeneous BA networks more vulnerable.

Keywords: Cascading failure; edge weight; betweenness; robustness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S012918311850095X
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:29:y:2018:i:10:n:s012918311850095x

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from

DOI: 10.1142/S012918311850095X

Access Statistics for this article

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC) is currently edited by H. J. Herrmann

More articles in International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC) from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().