Article Title
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