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Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks

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  • Sergey V. Buldyrev

    (Yeshiva University, 500 West 185th Street, New York, New York 10033, USA
    Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA)

  • Roni Parshani

    (Bar-Ilan University)

  • Gerald Paul

    (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA)

  • H. Eugene Stanley

    (Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA)

  • Shlomo Havlin

    (Bar-Ilan University)

Abstract

Power outages: catastrophic failure of linked networks On 28 September 2003, Italy suffered a near-nationwide power cut (Sicily was spared) that also brought down the Internet. Buldyrev et al. take this event, typical of a number that have occurred worldwide in recent years, and examine how such a cascade of failures involving independent networks can occur. They find that, surprisingly, a broader degree of distribution increases the vulnerability of interdependent networks to random failure — the opposite of what happens in a single network. This highlights the need to consider interdependent network properties when designing robust networks if a random failure is not to have catastrophic results.

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  • Sergey V. Buldyrev & Roni Parshani & Gerald Paul & H. Eugene Stanley & Shlomo Havlin, 2010. "Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks," Nature, Nature, vol. 464(7291), pages 1025-1028, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:464:y:2010:i:7291:d:10.1038_nature08932
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08932
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