Robustness of deterministic hierarchical networks against cascading failures
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhang, Ying-xin; Cai, Shan; Chen, Chao; Shi, Jian-mai
- Source
- 2011 International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE), 2011 International Conference on. :4063-4066 Sep, 2011
- Subject
- Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Robotics and Control Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Power system faults
Power system protection
Robustness
Analytical models
Complex networks
Floors
robustness
cascading failures
hierarchical networks
- Language
Hierarchical structure is one of the most ubiquitous structures in various networked complex systems. Cascading failures are common phenomenon in real-life systems and can occur in many infrastructure networks, including the hierarchical complex networks. In this paper, we propose a deterministic hierarchical network model which simultaneously possesses the small-world and scale-free properties. We furthermore investigate the robustness against cascading failures of the proposed model. By simulation analysis, we find some interesting and counterintuitive results which may be useful in furthering studies of control of and defense against cascading failures in many real hierarchical complex networks.