Existing link attack strategies in networks differ in the importance or robustness metric, that quantifies the effect of a link removal upon the network's vulnerability. In this paper, we investigate the role of the effective resistance matrix in the removal of links on a graph and compare this removal strategy with other state-of-the-art attack strategies over synthetic networks. The results of the analysis show that the effective resistance and the link-betweenness strategies behave similarly and are more harmful than the degree based strategies when evaluating robustness with different performance measures.

Comparative Network Robustness Evaluation of Link Attacks

Pizzuti C;Socievole A;
2019

Abstract

Existing link attack strategies in networks differ in the importance or robustness metric, that quantifies the effect of a link removal upon the network's vulnerability. In this paper, we investigate the role of the effective resistance matrix in the removal of links on a graph and compare this removal strategy with other state-of-the-art attack strategies over synthetic networks. The results of the analysis show that the effective resistance and the link-betweenness strategies behave similarly and are more harmful than the degree based strategies when evaluating robustness with different performance measures.
2019
978-3-030-36686-5
complex networks
robustness
graph resistance
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