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Volume 113, Number 2, January 2016
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Article Number | 28002 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Interdisciplinary Physics and Related Areas of Science and Technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/113/28002 | |
Published online | 08 February 2016 |
Modified localized attack on complex network
Nonlinear Scientific Research Center, Faculty of Science, Jiangsu University - Zhenjiang, 212013, China
Received: 10 October 2015
Accepted: 21 January 2016
Since a shell structure contains a wealth of information, it is not only very important for understanding the transport properties of the network, but also essential to identify influential spreaders in complex networks. Nodes within each shell can be classified into two categories: protected nodes and unprotected nodes. In this paper, we propose a generalization of the localized attack, modified localized attack, which means that when a randomly chosen node (root node) is under attack, protected nodes will not be removed, but unprotected nodes in the nearest shells will fail. We numerically and analytically study the system robustness under this attack by taking an Erdös-Rényi (ER) network, a regular random (RR) network and a scale-free (SF) network as examples. Moreover, a fraction of nodes belonging to giant component S and a critical threshold qc, where S approaches to zero, are given. The result implies that increasing connection density has been found to be useful to significantly improve network robustness.
PACS: 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems / 64.60.aq – Networks
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