TY  - CHAP
M1  - 574
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1386821
SP  - 85
KW  - PACS:89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems; 89.20.Hh World Wide Web
KW  -  Internet; 89.70.-a Information and communication theory
ID  - eprints1194
Y1  - 2001///
AV  - none
N2  - 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 ? = 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.
EP  - 88
TI  - The fractal properties of internet
ED  - Garrido, Pietro L.
ED  - Marro, Joaquín
N1  - Proceedings of the VI Granada Seminar on Computational Physics, 4-10 September 2000, Granada, Spain 
T2  - Modeling Complex Systems: sixth Granada lectures on computational physics
PB  - American Institute of Physics
SN  - 0094243X
A1  - Marchetti, Riccardo
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
A1  - Pietronero, Luciano
ER  -