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Measuring network resilience through connection patterns

Social and Information Networks 2019-03-28 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

Networks are at the core of modeling many engineering contexts, mainly in the case of infrastructures and communication systems. The resilience of a network, which is the property of the system capable of absorbing external shocks, is then of paramount relevance in the applications. This paper deals with this topic by advancing a theoretical proposal for measuring the resilience of a network. The proposal is based on the study of the shocks propagation along the patterns of connections among nodes. The theoretical model is tested on the real-world instances of two important airport systems in the US air traffic network; Illinois (including the hub of Chicago) and New York states (with JFK airport).

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@article{arxiv.1808.07731,
  title  = {Measuring network resilience through connection patterns},
  author = {Roy Cerqueti and Giovanna Ferraro and Antonio Iovanella},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.07731},
  year   = {2019}
}

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Keywords: networks; resilience; paths; weighted arcs; air traffic systems