Analysis of Cascading Failures of Interdependent Networks under Random Attacks

Abstract

With continuous deepening of researches on complex network problems, the cascading failure problem of interdependent networks becomes one of the hot research topics in this field at present. This paper establishes a cascading failure model of interdependent networks based on a load-capacity model. And then we focus on the robustness problem of interdependent networks under random attacks based on four different network combinations. At last, an interdependent coupling network constituted of two networks with the node quantity of ten is taken as the example to verify conclusions obtained in this paper. Research results show that under random attacks, robustness of the asymmetric interdependent networks is similar with the previous research results, namely, robustness of the networks decreases with the increase of removal proportion and increases with the increase of tolerance coefficient. In addition, BA-BA interdependent networks and disassortative link networks perform better than other network combinations and coupling manners.