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Range-based attack on links in scale-free networks: Are long-range links responsible for the small-world phenomenon?

Range-based attack on links in scale-free networks: Are long-range links responsible for the small-world phenomenon?

The small-world phenomenon in complex networks has been identified as being due to the presence of long-range links, i.e., links connecting nodes that would otherwise be separated by a long node-to-node distance. We find, surprisingly, that many scale-free networks are more sensitive to attacks on short-range than on long-range links. …