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Title    Hidden Vulnerability Discovered in Air Network
Date    Thursday April 17 2014, @06:07AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/16/2022258

taylorvich writes:

The global network of links between the world's airports looks robust but contains a hidden weakness that could lead to entire regions being cut off.

From the article:

An example is St Petersburg airport in Tampa Bay, Florida. This has 24 connections and only 24 flights. Close this airport and the airports it connects to are all cut out of the global network. That makes the world airline network rather unusual. "It is surprising, insofar as there exists a highly resilient and strongly connected core consisting of a small fraction of airports together with an extremely fragile star-like periphery," say Verma and co.

Links

  1. "taylorvich" - http://soylentnews.org/~taylorvich
  2. "global network of links between the world's airports looks robust but contains a hidden weakness" - http://www.technologyreview.com/view/526486/hidden-vulnerability-discovered-in-the-worlds-airline-network

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