Cascading failure in Watts-Strogatz small-world networks

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Xia, Yongxiang

Fan, Jin

Hill, David

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

In this paper, we study the cascading failure in Watts-Strogatz small-world networks. We find that this network model has a heterogeneous betweenness distribution, although its degree distribution is homogeneous. Further study shows that this small-world

Keywords

Keywords: Betweenness; Cascading failures; Complex networks; Degree distributions; Homogeneous network; Intentional Attacks; Network degree distributions; Network models; Random attacks; Random graphs; Scale free networks; Small world networks; Watts-Strogatz small Betweenness; Cascading failure; Complex networks; Small-world networks

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/61704

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ANU Research Publications

Source

Physica A: Statistical mechanics and its applications

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1016/j.physa.2009.11.037

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2037-12-31

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