Failure resistance analysis of complex networks considering node resilience

doi:10.23919/JSEE.2026.000145

Abstract

Abstract:

The survivability of the infrastructure network, especially the combat system, is a core index to reflect the merits of the system. The cascade effect caused by the failure of a single or a few nodes is the focus of the research on the resistance. Many scholars have studied this problem and put forward some useful cascading failure models. Considering node resilience, a cascade failure model is proposed in which nodes have three states: normal, overload and failure. In addition, the conditions for the failure of connected edges are given. The model fully considers the redundancy design of the real system, and can objectively reflect the performance of the system to deal with cascade failure. We study the effect of node resilience on network cascade failure in both typical network and real network. Experimental results show that the proposed model can reduce the scale of cascade failures with higher cost utilization compared with the classical model that is widely used, especially when the network capacity is small.

Key words: node resilience, complex network, cascading failure

Jun Liu, Xiaolong Liang. Failure resistance analysis of complex networks considering node resilience[J]. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics, 2026, 37(4): 1317-1324.

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