The robustness of interdependent clustered networks

Author: Huang Xuqing   Shao Shuai   Wang Huijuan   Buldyrev Sergey V.   Eugene Stanley H.   Havlin Shlomo  

Publisher: Edp Sciences

E-ISSN: 1286-4854|101|1|18002-18002

ISSN: 0295-5075

Source: EPL (EUROPHYSICS LETTERS), Vol.101, Iss.1, 2013-01, pp. : 18002-18002

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Abstract

It was recently found that cascading failures can cause the abrupt breakdown of a system of interdependent networks. Using the percolation method developed for single clustered networks by Newman (Phys. Rev. Lett., 103 (2009) 058701), we develop an analytical method for studying how clustering within the networks of a system of interdependent networks affects the system's robustness. We find that clustering significantly increases the vulnerability of the system, which is represented by the increased value of the percolation threshold pc in interdependent networks.