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Volume 101, Number 1, January 2013
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| Article Number | 18002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/101/18002 | |
| Published online | 18 January 2013 | |
The robustness of interdependent clustered networks
1 Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University - Boston, MA 02215, USA
2 Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology 2628 CD, Delft, The Netherlands
3 Department of Physics, Yeshiva University - New York, NY 10033 USA
4 Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University - 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel
Received: 27 September 2012
Accepted: 11 December 2012
It was recently found that cascading failures can cause the abrupt breakdown of a system of interdependent networks. Using the percolation method developed for single clustered networks by Newman (Phys. Rev. Lett., 103 (2009) 058701), we develop an analytical method for studying how clustering within the networks of a system of interdependent networks affects the system's robustness. We find that clustering significantly increases the vulnerability of the system, which is represented by the increased value of the percolation threshold pc in interdependent networks.
PACS: 89.75.-k – Complex systems / 64.60.ah – Percolation / 64.60.aq – Networks
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