Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

Thu Feb 6 21:02:53 UTC 2003

The paper is avaibable on the Los Alamos site free of charge:

http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/cond-mat/pdf/0301/0301086.pdf

----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com>
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2003 12:43 pm
Subject: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

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> Sigh, there are differences between tightly coupled networks, such as
> the electric power grid and loosely couple networks like the 
Internet.
> But there are also some similarities, such as electric grids use DC
> interconnections to limit how far AC disturbances propagate; the
> Internet uses AS interconnections to limit IGP disturbances from
> propagating.
> 
> http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/20686.html
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> The actual article requires payment to read
> http://ojps.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?
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