Department
Physics
Disciplines
Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Abstract
This paper explores the effectiveness of network attack when the attacker has imperfect information about the network. For Erdös-Rényi networks, we observe that dynamical importance and betweenness centrality-based attacks are surprisingly robust to the presence of a moderate amount of imperfect information and are more effective compared with simpler degree-based attacks even at moderate levels of network information error. In contrast, for scale-free networks the effectiveness of attack is much less degraded by a moderate level of information error. Furthermore, in the Erdös-Rényi case the effectiveness of network attack is much more degraded by missing links as compared with the same number of false links.
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Recommended Citation
Melchionna, A.; Caloca, Jesus; Squires, S.; Antonsen, T.; Ott, E.; and Girvan, M.
(2015)
"The Impact of Imperfect Information on Network Attack,"
McNair Scholars Research Journal: Vol. 11:
Iss.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/mcnair_journal/vol11/iss1/6
