{"id":5223,"date":"2010-04-16T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5223"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:41:46","slug":"networked-networks-shown-as-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/04\/16\/networked-networks-shown-as-fragile\/","title":{"rendered":"Networked networks shown as fragile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5224\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/04\/computer-cables-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"computer cables\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>You&#8217;d think that networks that are linked to other networks would be more stable because they&#8217;d multiply their redundancy.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 New research by BU physicists, published in the latest <a title=\"Nature\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v464\/n7291\/full\/nature08932.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nature<\/a> magazine and discussed in <a title=\"Wired\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/04\/networked-networks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>, shows just the opposite.\u00a0 In fact, networked networks are more susceptible to swift, catastrophic collapse than are independent networks, said study co-author\u00a0<a title=\"Gerald Paul\" href=\"http:\/\/physics.bu.edu\/people\/show\/115\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald Paul<\/a>, a BU research scientist.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Networks with broad distributions are robust against random attacks. But we found that broad interconnected networks are very fragile.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Gerald Paul, 617-353-3411, <a href=\"mailto:gerryp@bu.edu\">gerryp@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d think that networks that are linked to other networks would be more stable because they&#8217;d multiply their redundancy.\u00a0 Wrong.\u00a0 New research by BU physicists, published in the latest Nature magazine and discussed in Wired, shows just the opposite.\u00a0 In fact, networked networks are more susceptible to swift, catastrophic collapse than are independent networks, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2694,2693,2692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5223"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5223\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}