Network Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis

Network resilience and vulnerability analysis is an analytical framework, formalised by Albert, Jeong, and Barabási (2000), that measures how a network degrades functionally as nodes or edges are progressively removed. By running targeted-attack simulations — removing the highest-centrality nodes first — and random-failure simulations — removing nodes at uniform probability — the framework identifies which structural elements are critical to network integrity and where infrastructure is most exposed.