relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1194/
title: The fractal properties of internet
creator: Marchetti, Riccardo
creator: Caldarelli, Guido
creator: Pietronero, Luciano
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)∝n−r where n is the size of the basin connected to a given point, P represents the density of probability of finding a basin of size n connected and τ = 1.9±0.1 is a characteristic universal exponent. The connection between users and providers are studied and modeled as branches of a world spanning tree. This scale-free structure is the 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: American Institute of Physics
contributor: Garrido, Pietro L.
contributor: Marro, Joaquín
date: 2001
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
identifier:   Marchetti, Riccardo and Caldarelli, Guido and Pietronero, Luciano  The fractal properties of internet.   In:  Modeling Complex Systems: sixth Granada lectures on computational physics.   American Institute of Physics, pp. 85-88.       (2001)  
relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1386821
relation: 10.1063/1.1386821