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The fractal properties of Internet

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)

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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.

Item Type: Article
Identification Number: 10.1209/epl/i2000-00450-8
Uncontrolled Keywords: PACS: 92.40.Fb Rivers, runoff, and streamflow; 05.10.-a Computational methods in statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics;
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
Q Science > QC Physics
Research Area: Economics and Institutional Change
Depositing User: Ms T. Iannizzi
Date Deposited: 24 Feb 2012 10:07
Last Modified: 20 Nov 2013 14:03
URI: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/1164

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