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creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Marchetti, Riccardo
creators_name: Pietronero, Luciano
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: The fractal properties of Internet
ispublished: pub
subjects: GE
subjects: QA75
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS: 92.40.Fb Rivers, runoff, and streamflow; 05.10.-a Computational methods in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics; 
abstract: 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.
date: 2000-09
date_type: published
publication: EPL (Europhysics Letters)
volume: 52
number: 4
publisher: IOPscience
pagerange: 386-391
id_number: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0295-5075      
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8
related_url_url: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009178
citation:   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)