ABSTRACT
The information security model is composed of confiden-
tiality, integrity, and availability. Availability is the area of
information security that requires services and network
components to be continuously available for the user com-
munity. If a service or component is unavailable, confiden-
tiality and integrity are meaningless. Network availability
is the underlying component that must be present in order
for services to be accessible for end users. Developers have
used redundancy to assist in ensuring that an application or
network is available; however, this is an expensive solution
if several network components and services are involved.
Computer networks, the electrical power grid, the protein
network of a cell, and many other scale-free networks have
inherent problems. In order to understand the problems that
reside within scale-free networks, an understanding of the
concept of scale-free network construction must be
observed. Discovered by the research performed by
Baraba´si and his team,[1] scale-free networks are first
identified by the characteristic of power laws. By examin-
ing a power law histogram (Fig. 1), the components of the
power law follow a downward decline, indicating the pre-
sence of many small nodes and a few large nodes.
