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Modeling structure and resilience of the dark network

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    Identifier: PC:2615
    Authors:
    De Domenico, M.Arenas, A.
    Abstract:
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022313 URL: http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022313 Filiació URV: SI Memòria
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    Author, as appears in the article.: De Domenico, M.; Arenas, A.
    Department: Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
    URV's Author/s: DE DOMENICO ., MANLIO; ARENAS MORENO, ALEJANDRO
    Keywords: Small-world networks Across time Topology
    Abstract: While the statistical and resilience properties of the Internet are no longer changing significantly across time, the Darknet, a network devoted to keep anonymous its traffic, still experiences rapid changes to improve the security of its users. Here we study the structure of the Darknet and find that its topology is rather peculiar, being characterized by a nonhomogeneous distribution of connections, typical of scale-free networks; very short path lengths and high clustering, typical of small-world networks; and lack of a core of highly connected nodes. We propose a model to reproduce such features, demonstrating that the mechanisms used to improve cybersecurity are responsible for the observed topology. Unexpectedly, we reveal that its peculiar structure makes the Darknet much more resilient than the Internet (used as a benchmark for comparison at a descriptive level) to random failures, targeted attacks, and cascade failures, as a result of adaptive changes in response to the attempts of dismantling the network across time.
    Research group: Algorithms embedded in Physical Systems
    Thematic Areas: Enginyeria informàtica Ingeniería informática Computer engineering
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1539-3755
    Author identifier: 0000-0001-5158-8594; 0000-0003-0937-0334
    Record's date: 2017-03-15
    Journal volume: 95
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    Link to the original source: http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022313
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Article's DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.95.022313
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2017
    First page: Art.num. 022313
    Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
  • Keywords:

    Internet
    Small-world networks
    Across time
    Topology
    Enginyeria informàtica
    Ingeniería informática
    Computer engineering
    1539-3755
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