relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1164/
title: The fractal properties of Internet
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: Marchetti, Riccardo
creator: Pietronero, Luciano
subject: GE Environmental Sciences
subject: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
subject: QC Physics
description: In this paper we show that the Internet web, from a user's perspective, manifests robust scaling properties of the type P(n) propto n−τ, where n is the size of the basin connected to a given point, P represents the density of probability of finding n points downhill and τ = 1.9 ± 0.1 s a characteristic universal exponent. This scale-free structure is a result of the spontaneous growth of the web, but is not necessarily the optimal one for efficient transport. We introduce an appropriate figure of merit and suggest that a planning of few big links, acting as information highways, may noticeably increase the efficiency of the net without affecting its robustness.
publisher: IOPscience
date: 2000-09
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Caldarelli, Guido and Marchetti, Riccardo and Pietronero, Luciano  The fractal properties of Internet.  EPL (Europhysics Letters), 52 (4).  pp. 386-391.  ISSN 0295-5075       (2000)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8
relation: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8