Scale-free cascading failures: Generalized approach for all simple, connected graphs

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Autores principales: Janicka, Agnieszka, Sloothaak, Fiona, Vlasiou, Maria
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Publicado: 2024
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author Janicka, Agnieszka
Sloothaak, Fiona
Vlasiou, Maria
author_facet Janicka, Agnieszka
Sloothaak, Fiona
Vlasiou, Maria
contents Cascading failures, wherein the failure of one component triggers subsequent failures in complex interconnected systems, pose a significant risk of disruptions and emerge across various domains. Understanding and mitigating the risk of such failures is crucial to minimize their impact and ensure the resilience of these systems. In multiple applications, the failure processes exhibit scale-free behavior in terms of their total failure sizes. Various models have been developed to explain the origin of this scale-free behavior. A recent study proposed a novel hypothesis, suggesting that scale-free failure sizes might be inherited from scale-free input characteristics in power networks. However, the scope of this study excluded certain network topologies. Here, motivated by power networks, we strengthen this hypothesis by generalizing to a broader range of graph topologies where this behavior is manifested. Our approach yields a universal theorem applicable to all simple, connected graphs, revealing that when a cascade leads to network disconnections, the total failure size exhibits a scale-free tail inherited from the input characteristics. We do so by characterizing cascade sequences of failures in the asymptotic regime.
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spellingShingle Scale-free cascading failures: Generalized approach for all simple, connected graphs
Janicka, Agnieszka
Sloothaak, Fiona
Vlasiou, Maria
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Cascading failures, wherein the failure of one component triggers subsequent failures in complex interconnected systems, pose a significant risk of disruptions and emerge across various domains. Understanding and mitigating the risk of such failures is crucial to minimize their impact and ensure the resilience of these systems. In multiple applications, the failure processes exhibit scale-free behavior in terms of their total failure sizes. Various models have been developed to explain the origin of this scale-free behavior. A recent study proposed a novel hypothesis, suggesting that scale-free failure sizes might be inherited from scale-free input characteristics in power networks. However, the scope of this study excluded certain network topologies. Here, motivated by power networks, we strengthen this hypothesis by generalizing to a broader range of graph topologies where this behavior is manifested. Our approach yields a universal theorem applicable to all simple, connected graphs, revealing that when a cascade leads to network disconnections, the total failure size exhibits a scale-free tail inherited from the input characteristics. We do so by characterizing cascade sequences of failures in the asymptotic regime.
title Scale-free cascading failures: Generalized approach for all simple, connected graphs
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11727