Model and Analyze the Cascading Failure of Scale-Free Network Considering the Selective Forwarding Attack

Many real-world networks have scale-free characteristics and can be abstracted into scale-free networks. Aiming at the problem that scale-free networks have low fault tolerance in the face of malicious attacks, we focus on the selective forwarding attack behavior that exists widely in the networks,...

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Main Authors: Rongrong Yin, Huaili Yuan, Huahua Zhu, Xudan Song
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9369331/
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Summary:Many real-world networks have scale-free characteristics and can be abstracted into scale-free networks. Aiming at the problem that scale-free networks have low fault tolerance in the face of malicious attacks, we focus on the selective forwarding attack behavior that exists widely in the networks, and build a selective forwarding attack model based on node importance. Moreover, according to the neighbor node’s malicious and non-malicious behavior, a load redistribution strategy for failed node is proposed. Then, the network’s damage degree is given to evaluate the comprehensive impact of cascading failure phenomenon on network connectivity and information integrity under selective forwarding attack. Finally, a cascading failure model of scale-free networks considering selective forwarding attack behavior is obtained. Based on this model, the propagation condition without triggering network cascading failure, the selective forwarding attack intensity threshold and the load loss ratio are obtained. By simulation on the classical BA scale-free network model, the results show that multiple nodes’ random failure occurs in scale-free networks, selective forwarding attack behavior is helpful to improve the connectivity of the network. Besides, the network exists selective forwarding attack intensity threshold, when attack intensity is greater than the intensity threshold, the malicious nodes will not fail because of the failure of the neighbor nodes. But, selective forwarding attack behavior can destroy the information integrity, and there is a negative correlation between the attack intensity and the information integrity. These results have certain guiding significance for cascade failure analysis and prevention method research and design in real life.
ISSN:2169-3536