Cascading Failures in Bipartite Coupled Map Lattices

In this paper, the cascading failures in a class of bipartite coupled map lattices are investigated. We found that for a network with given heterogeneity, international attack is much easier to trigger cascading failures than random attack. Furthermore, not only the mean node degree but also the largest eigenvalues of the network are found to relate to the size of cascading failures in the network. Therefore, this work might shed some light on the control of cascading failures in such structure of the network.