Efficiency of scale-free networks: Error and attack tolerance

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DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01545-5zbMATH Open1010.68003arXivcond-mat/0205601WikidataQ59393209 ScholiaQ59393209MaRDI QIDQ1859784FDOQ1859784


Authors: Paolo Crucitti, Vito Latora, Massimo Marchiori, Andrea Rapisarda Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 February 2003

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The concept of network efficiency, recently proposed to characterize the properties of small-world networks, is here used to study the effects of errors and attacks on scale-free networks. Two different kinds of scale-free networks, i.e. networks with power law P(k), are considered: 1) scale-free networks with no local clustering produced by the Barabasi-Albert model and 2) scale-free networks with high clustering properties as in the model by Klemm and Eguiluz, and their properties are compared to the properties of random graphs (exponential graphs). By using as mathematical measures the global and the local efficiency we investigate the effects of errors and attacks both on the global and the local properties of the network. We show that the global efficiency is a better measure than the characteristic path length to describe the response of complex networks to external factors. We find that, at variance with random graphs, scale-free networks display, both on a global and on a local scale, a high degree of error tolerance and an extreme vulnerability to attacks. In fact, the global and the local efficiency are unaffected by the failure of some randomly chosen nodes, though they are extremely sensititive to the removal of the few nodes which play a crucial role in maintaining the network's connectivity.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0205601




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