Isolated zones and granulation of complex network systems

TL;DR

This paper investigates how to isolate zones within complex networks, analyzes the resulting system losses, and proposes methods for rerouting flow to maintain network functionality during granulation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to model network granulation as a temporal network and calculates associated system losses, offering new strategies for network resilience.

Findings

Losses due to zone blocking are quantified.

A method for bypassing isolated zones is proposed.

Network granulation impacts system performance over time.

Abstract

The problem of blocking certain areas of network systems and their boundary case, which is the granulation of network to a set of isolated zones, is investigated in the article. The losses that await the system due to blocking of its separate components are determined, and method for finding alternative ways of flow motion bypassing the isolated zone of network are proposed. The granulation process of the network system is reflected as a temporal network and the losses that await the system during the deployment of such processes are calculated.