Robustness of complex cooperative communication network

The research on robustness is an important issue for complex networks. Recently, to improve the communication performances, wireless cooperative communication has become a promising way. Therefore, to achieve better benefits of cooperative communication, the robustness research on complex cooperative communication network — CCCN is necessary. In this paper, the network evolution model for CCCN is established and the average path length is used to evaluate its robustness performance. The simulation results show that the CCCN is power-law in degree distribution and more stable than the one without cooperative communication in combating the random nodes attack and intentional nodes attack.