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Many real-world networks depend on other networks, often in non-trivial ways, to maintain their functionality. These interdependent networks of networks are often extremely fragile. When a fraction $1-p$ of nodes in one network randomly fails, the damage propagates to nodes in networks that are interdependent and a dynamic failure cascade occurs that affects the entire system. We present dynamic equations for two interdependent networks that allow us to reproduce the failure cascade for an arbitrary pattern of interdependency. We study the rich club effect found in many real interdependent network systems in which the high-degree nodes are extremely interdependent, correlating a fraction $alpha$ of the higher degree nodes on each network. We find a rich phase diagram in the plane $p-alpha$, with a triple point reminiscent of the triple point of liquids that separates a non-functional phase from two functional phases.
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Many man-made networks support each other to provide efficient services and resources to the customers, despite that this support produces a strong interdependency between the individual networks. Thus an initial failure of a fraction $1-p$ of nodes in one network, exposes the system to cascade of failures and, as a consequence, to a full collapse of the overall system. Therefore it is important to develop efficient strategies to avoid the collapse by increasing the robustness of the individual networks against failures. Here, we provide an exact theoretical approach to study the evolution of the cascade of failures on interdependent networks when a fraction $alpha$ of the nodes with higher connectivity in each individual network are autonomous. With this pattern of interdependency we found, for pair of heterogeneous networks, two critical percolation thresholds that depend on $alpha$, separating three regimes with very different networks final sizes that converge into a triple point in the plane $p-alpha$. Our findings suggest that the heterogeneity of the networks represented by high degree nodes is the responsible of the rich phase diagrams found in this and other investigations.
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