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Comparative Network Robustness Evaluation of Link Attacks

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Abstract

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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  • Complex networks
  • Robustness
  • Graph resistance

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Notes

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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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    Clara Pizzuti & Annalisa Socievole

  2. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Piet Van Mieghem

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  1. University of Burgundy, Dijon Cedex, France

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  2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

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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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