TY  - JOUR
SN  - 0295-5075      
ID  - eprints1164
EP  - 391
N2  - 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??, 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 ? = 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.
JF  - EPL (Europhysics Letters)
PB  - IOPscience
IS  - 4
AV  - none
SP  - 386
TI  - The fractal properties of Internet
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
A1  - Marchetti, Riccardo
A1  - Pietronero, Luciano
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8
Y1  - 2000/09//
VL  - 52
KW  - PACS: 92.40.Fb Rivers
KW  -  runoff
KW  -  and streamflow; 05.10.-a Computational methods in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics; 
ER  -