Universal behavior of cascading failures in interdependent networks

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1904421116
• Publication Date: 2019-10-17T23:25:36Z
• Authors: Dongli Duan; Changchun Lv; Shubin Si; Zhen Wang; Daqing Li; Jianxi Gao; Shlomo Havlin; H. Eugene Stanley; Stefano Boccaletti
• Keywords: Cascading failure; Interdependent networks

Significance Catastrophic events affecting technological or critical infrastructures are often originated by a cascading failure triggered marginal perturbations, which on their turn localized in one of the many interdependent graphs describing systems. Understanding robustness these is therefore utmost importance for preventing crashes and/or engineering more efficient and stalwart networked Here we give fresh framework means failures can be described very rich variety dynamical models topological network structures provides series quantitative answers able to predict extent system’s failure.