Simulation for Cascading Failure in Barabási-Albert Network: a Cellular Automata Approach

Abstract

In many complex networks, initial failure of a few modes may cause the cascading failure of the entire network, so we propose a cascading failure model based on cellular automata (CFCA) and build a simulator to characterize the special process. Through simulations, we found that compared with random attacks, malicious attacks are more harmful to the network and the recovery probability of nodes is important to reduce cascading failures.