
Evolution and Structure of the Internet
A Statistical Physics Approach
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- Authors:
- Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
- Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
- Date Published: April 2004
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521826983
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Viewed in this analysis from a statistical physics perspective, the Internet is perceived as a developing system that evolves through the addition and removal of nodes and links. This perspective permits the authors to outline the dynamical theory that can appropriately describe the Internet's macroscopic evolution. The presence of such a theoretical framework will provide a revolutionary way of enhancing the reader's understanding of the Internet's varied network processes.
Read more- Statistical physics and complex systems theory applied to the understanding of the Internet physical structure
- Interdisciplinary approach to the study of the global Internet
- A comprehensive presentation of the scientific characterization of the Internet
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- Date Published: April 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521826983
- length: 284 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 178 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.71kg
- contains: 81 b/w illus. 8 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. A brief history of the Internet
2. How the Internet works
3. Measuring the global Internet
4. The Internet's large-scale topology
5. Modeling the Internet
6. Internet robustness
7. Virtual and social networks in the Internet
8. Searching and walking on the Internet
9. Epidemics in the Internet
10. Beyond the Internet's skeleton: traffic and global performance
11. Outlook
Appendix I: graph theory applied to topology analysis
Appendix II: interface resolution and router topology
Appendix III: numerical analysis of heavy-tailed distributions
Appendix IV: degree correlations
Appendix V: scale-free networks: scaling relations
Appendix VI: the SIR model of virus propagation
References
Index.
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