Researches of the Topology Robustness of Large-scale Complex Networks under Hybrid Attacks

Robustness about large-scale complex networks against targeted and random attacks is studied. Experiments of hybrid attacks including random attacks and target attacks were simulated. Experiment results found clearly that router-level Internet and scale-free networks are fragile to target attacks but robust to random attacks. On the other hands, the NW small-world networks are not sensitive to target attacks. For all kinds of networks, they would get fragile when network workloads increase.