Title
Geometric correlations mitigate the extreme vulnerability of multiplex networks against targeted attacks.
Abstract
We show that real multiplex networks are unexpectedly robust against targeted attacks on high-degree nodes and that hidden interlayer geometric correlations predict this robustness. Without geometric correlations, multiplexes exhibit an abrupt breakdown of mutual connectivity, even with interlayer degree correlations. With geometric correlations, we instead observe a multistep cascading process leading into a continuous transition, which apparently becomes fully continuous in the thermodynamic limit. Our results are important for the design of efficient protection strategies and of robust interacting networks in many domains.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.218301
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Field
DocType
Volume
Complex system,Statistical physics,Multiplex,Thermodynamic limit,Robustness (computer science),Cluster analysis,Condensed matter physics,Physics,Vulnerability
Journal
118
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
21
0031-9007
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg1133.14
Lubos Buzna219627.21
Fragkiskos Papadopoulos335222.97
Marián Boguñá454335.14
M Ángeles Serrano525717.84