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Robustness Comparison of 15 Real Telecommunication Networks: Structural and Centrality Measurements

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Multiple failures can have catastrophic consequences on the normal operation of telecommunication networks. In this sense, guaranteeing network robustness to avoid users and services being disconnected is essential. A wide range of metrics have been proposed for measuring network robustness. In this paper the taxonomy of robustness metrics in telecommunication networks has been extended and a classification of multiple failures scenarios has been made. Moreover, a structural and centrality robustness comparison of 15 real telecommunication networks experiencing multiple failures was carried out. Through this analysis the topological properties which are common for grouping networks with similar robustness are able to be identified

This work is partiality supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economı´a y Competitividad and the DURSI consolidated research group (CSI Ref. SGR-1469) through the RoGER project (TEC 2012-32336) being developed in the Broadband Communications and Distributed Systems (BCDS) research group at the Universitat de Girona (Spain)

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