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
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2017
First page: Art.num. 022313
Publication Type: Article Artículo Article
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