Symmetry (Mar 2021)

Study of Cascading Failure in Multisubnet Composite Complex Networks

  • Gengxin Sun,
  • Chih-Cheng Chen,
  • Sheng Bin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13030523
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 3
p. 523

Abstract

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Current research on the cascading failure of coupling networks is mostly based on hierarchical network models and is limited to a single relationship. In reality, many relationships exist in a network system, and these relationships collectively affect the process and scale of the network cascading failure. In this paper, a composite network is constructed based on the multisubnet composite complex network model, and its cascading failure is proposed combined with multiple relationships. The effect of intranetwork relationships and coupling relationships on network robustness under different influencing factors is studied. It is shown that cascading failure in composite networks is different from coupling networks, and increasing the strength of the coupling relationship can significantly improve the robustness of the network.

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