Network Robustness under Large-Scale Attacks

• Main Authors: Zhou, Qing (Author), Gao, Long (Author), Liu, Ruifang (Author), Cui, Shuguang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Electrical engineering.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Communication Networks.
• Physical Description: VIII, 41 p. 12 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781461448600
• ISSN: 2191-5768

Network Robustness under Large-Scale Attacks provides the analysis of network robustness under attacks, with a focus on large-scale correlated physical attacks. The book begins with a thorough overview of the latest research and techniques to analyze the network responses to different types of attacks over various network topologies and connection models. It then introduces a new large-scale physical attack model coined as area attack, under which a new network robustness measure is introduced and applied to study the network responses. With this book, readers will learn the necessary tools to evaluate how a complex network responds to random and possibly correlated attacks.