Stochastic Models in Reliability Engineering

15 Analysis of Node Resilience Measures for Network Systems

Chao Zhang, Xin Xu, and Hongyan Dui

DOI: 10.4324/9780429331527-15

Contents

• 15.1 Introduction: Background and the Main Purpose
• 15.2 The Generation of an Example Network
  • 15.2.1 Network Topology
  • 15.2.2 Cascading Failure
  • 15.2.3 New Level Values of Nodes after Failure
• 15.3 The Matrix of Node Resilience (MNR)
• 15.4 The Relationship between the QRN and the Node Importance
• 15.5 The Iteration of MNRs and Trend Analysis in the Process of Iteration
• 15.6 Conclusions
• References

15.1 Introduction: Background and the Main Purpose

The basic networks always have two elements and they are nodes and edges connecting nodes, both of which decide topologic features of a certain network. When facing ...