Catastrophic Cascade of Failures in Interdependent Networks
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2010-12-02 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Social and Information Networks
Computational Physics
Physics and Society
Abstract
Modern network-like systems are usually coupled in such a way that failures in one network can affect the entire system. In infrastructures, biology, sociology, and economy, systems are interconnected and events taking place in one system can propagate to any other coupled system. Recent studies on such coupled systems show that the coupling increases their vulnerability to random failure. Properties for interdependent networks differ significantly from those of single-network systems. In this article, these results are reviewed and the main properties discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.0206,
title = {Catastrophic Cascade of Failures in Interdependent Networks},
author = {S. Havlin and N. A. M. Araujo and S. V. Buldyrev and C. S. Dias and R. Parshani and G. Paul and H. E. Stanley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.0206},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
15 pages, 10 figures, International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" 2010