Approaches to improve the robustness on interdependent networks against cascading failures with load-based model

作者：Dong Zhengcheng; Fang Yanjun; Tian Meng; Zhang Rong^*

来源：Modern Physics Letters B, 2015, 29(32): 1550210.

DOI：10.1142/S0217984915502103

• Cascading failures
• coupled pattern
• robustness
• interdependent networks

With load-based model, considering the loss of capacity on nodes, we investigate how the coupling strength (many-to-many coupled pattern) and link patterns (one-to-one coupled pattern) can affect the robustness of interdependent networks. In one-to-one coupled pattern, we take into account the properties of degree and betweenness, and adopt four kinds of inter-similarity link patterns and random link pattern. In many-to-many coupled pattern, we propose a novel method to build new networks via adding inter-links (coupled links) on the existing one-to-one coupled networks. For a full investigation on the effects, we conduct two types of attack strategies, i.e. RO-attack (randomly remove only one node) and RF-attack (randomly remove a fraction of nodes). We numerically find that inter-similarity link patterns and bigger coupling strength can effectively improve the robustness under RO-attacks and RF-attacks in some cases. Therefore, the inter-similarity link patterns can be applied during the initial period of network construction. Once the networks are completed, the robustness level can be improved via adding inter-links appropriately without changing the existing inter-links and topologies of networks. We also find that BABA topology is a better choice and that it is not useful to infinitely increase the capacity which is defined as the cost of networks.

• 出版日期2015-11-30
• 单位武汉大学