Balancing capacity and epidemic spread in the global airline network

Applied Network Science

Table 1 Network metrics under different node removal strategies when the GC has been reduced to \(80\%\) of its original size

Node removal strategy	Removed nodes	Disconnected nodes	Retained nodes	Retained edges	Retained capacity \({\times 10^9\text { pkm}}\)
None	0	0	3661	24683	9.74
Degree	191	540	2930	7805	0.80
Vertex entropy	140	592	2929	9774	1.06
Betweenness centrality	91	636	2934	14491	2.01
Weighted degree	165	567	2929	10011	0.65
Weighted vertex entropy	154	576	2931	9938	0.63
Weighted betweenness centrality	85	625	2951	15477	2.40