Figure 4

Average number of time steps between novel attacks and individual nodes’ resistance to these attacks. These numbers are averaged over 100 iterations of each experiment for each network topology. Since one set of attempted repairs takes 100 time steps, this shows that on average no more than two sets of attempted repairs are made before a repair is generated locally or a resistant variant is received from a neighboring node. Network topologies are ordered from left to right by increasing number of edges. The data shown is for 1024 node networks.