On Structure and Robustness of Airport Network of India

Authors

  • Ankur Bharali Dibrugarh University
  • Dimpee Baruah Dibrugarh University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37591/rrdms.v5i2.1468

Keywords:

Network measures, Complex Network, Small-world, Disassortative mixing, Robustness, Airport Network of India (ANI)

Abstract

This paper uses a complex network approach to study the structure and robustness of Airport Network of India (ANI). The ANI displays small-world (SW) network properties with an average path length of 2.262 and a clustering coefficient of 0.605, and it also exhibits disassortative mixing on degree of nodes, that means the high-degree nodes in the network tend to have connections with low-degree nodes. Being a disassortative network, ANI doesn’t percolate more easily and less robust to node removal. A study of the robustness of ANI is also carried out for targeted node removal.

Author Biographies

  • Ankur Bharali, Dibrugarh University
    Assistant Professor in the Dept of Mathematics
  • Dimpee Baruah, Dibrugarh University
    Research Scholar Dept of Mathematics

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2018-09-01

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Vol. 5 No. 2 (2018)

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