Dynamic Topologies for Robust Scale-Free Networks  368 Downloads
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local VAT.  Get Access   In recent years, the field of anonymity
and traffic analysis have attracted much research interest.
However, the analysis of subsequent dynamics of attack and
defense, between an adversary using such topology information
gleaned from traffic analysis to mount an attack, and defenders
in a network, has recieved very little attention. Often an
attacker tries to disconnect a network by destroying nodes or
edges, while the defender counters using various resilience
mechanisms. Examples include a music industry body attempting to
close down a peer-to-peer file-sharing network; medics
attempting to halt the spread of an infectious disease by
selective vaccination; and a police agency trying to decapitate
a terrorist organisation. Albert, Jeong and Barabási famously
analysed the static case, and showed that