The Robustness of Scale-free Networks Under Edge Attacks with the   Quantitative Analysis
  Previous studies on the invulnerability of scale-free networks under edge attacks supported the conclusion that scale-free networks would be fragile under selective attacks. However, these studies are based on qualitative methods with obscure definitions on the robustness. This paper therefore employs a quantitative method to analyze the invulnerability of the scale-free networks, and uses four scale-free networks as the experimental group and four random networks as the control group. The experimental results show that some scale-free networks are robust under selective edge attacks, different to previous studies. Thus, this paper analyzes the difference between the experimental results and previous studies, and suggests reasonable explanations. 
Bojin Zheng and Hongrun Wu and Wenhua Du and Wanneng Shu and Jun Qin
cs.SI nlin.AO physics.soc-ph