Strategies for protecting of multilayer networks from group and system-wide targeted attacks

TL;DR

This paper develops structural models and indicators for multilayer networks, introducing concepts like aggregate-networks, p-core, and kag-core to analyze and simulate targeted group and system-wide attacks.

Contribution

It introduces new structural concepts and indicators for multilayer networks, enabling better analysis of attack scenarios and network robustness.

Findings

Aggregate-networks effectively model intersystem interactions.

p-core and kag-core identify critical network components.

Scenarios for group and system-wide attacks are constructed.

Abstract

On the basis of structural model of intersystem interactions, the main local and global structural characteristics of nodes of the multilayer network (MLN) are determined. The notions of weighted and binary aggregate-networks of MLN are introduced and integral indicators of the importance of nodes of the multilayer network are determined. The effectiveness of application of aggregate-networks for solving a number of practically important problems of the theory of complex networks is shown. To determine the most important components of intersystem interactions structure, the concepts of p-core of multilayer network and kag-core of its weighted aggregate-network are introduced. The effective scenarios of successive and simultaneous group attacks on the structure of multilayer network systems have been built based on the use of these cores. Indicators of the importance of separate layers of MLN are introduced and approaches to building scenarios of successive and simultaneous system-wide attacks on the structure of intersystem interactions are formulated.