Continuous Weight Attack on Complex Network

• 来源期刊: 理论物理通讯（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2008,（3）
• 页码范围: 797-800
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

We introduce a continuous weight attack strategy and numerically investigate the effect of continuous use a weight coefficient ω to define the attack intensity. The weight coefficient ω increases continuously from 1 to infinity, where 1 represents no attack and infinity represents complete destructive attack. Our results show that the continuous weight attack on two selected nodes with small ω (ω≈ 3) could achieve the same damage of complete elimination of a single selected node on both BA and ER networks. It is found that the continuous weight attack on a single selected edge with small ω (ω≈ 2) can reach the same effect of complete elimination of a single edge on BA network, but on ER network the damage of the continuous weight attack on a single edge is close to but always smaller than that of complete elimination of edge even if ω is very large.