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creators_name: Marchetti, Riccardo
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Pietronero, Luciano
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creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
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title: The fractal properties of internet
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: PACS:89.75.Fb Structures and organization in complex systems; 89.20.Hh World Wide Web, Internet; 89.70.-a Information and communication theory
note: Proceedings of the VI Granada Seminar on Computational Physics, 4-10 September 2000, Granada, Spain 
abstract: 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.
date: 2001
date_type: published
volume: 574
publisher: American Institute of Physics
pagerange: 85-88
id_number: 10.1063/1.1386821
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0094243X
book_title: Modeling Complex Systems: sixth Granada lectures on computational physics
editors_name: Garrido, Pietro L.
editors_name: Marro, Joaquín
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1386821
citation:   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)