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Existing link attack strategies in networks differ in the importance or robustness metric, that quantifies the effect of a link removal upon the network’s vulnerability. In this paper, we investigate the role of the effective resistance matrix in the removal of links on a graph and compare this removal strategy with other state-of-the-art attack strategies over synthetic networks. The results of the analysis show that the effective resistance and the link-betweenness strategies behave similarly and are more harmful than the degree based strategies when evaluating robustness with different performance measures.
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Weighted graph matrices are denoted by a tilde.
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In the topology domain, we speak about a graph consisting of nodes and links, while in the geometric space, a node corresponds to a point or node and the links in the simplex connect nodes.
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The line graph \(l\left( G\right) \) of the graph \(G\left( N,L\right) \) has as set of nodes the links of G and two nodes in the line graph \(l\left( G\right) \) are adjacent if and only if they have, as links in G, exactly one node of G in common [16].
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Pizzuti, C., Socievole, A., Van Mieghem, P. (2020). Comparative Network Robustness Evaluation of Link Attacks. In: Cherifi, H., Gaito, S., Mendes, J., Moro, E., Rocha, L. (eds) Complex Networks and Their Applications VIII. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2019. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 881. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36687-2_61
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