The "robust yet fragile" nature of the Internet

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dc.contributor.authorDoyle, J.
dc.contributor.authorAlderson, D.
dc.contributor.authorLi, L.
dc.contributor.authorLow, S.
dc.contributor.authorRoughan, M.
dc.contributor.authorShalunov, S.
dc.contributor.authorTanaka, R.
dc.contributor.authorWillinger, W.
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractThe search for unifying properties of complex networks is popular, challenging, and important. For modeling approaches that focus on robustness and fragility as unifying concepts, the Internet is an especially attractive case study, mainly because its applications are ubiquitous and pervasive, and widely available expositions exist at every level of detail. Nevertheless, alternative approaches to modeling the Internet often make extremely different assumptions and derive opposite conclusions about fundamental properties of one and the same system. Fortunately, a detailed understanding of Internet technology combined with a unique ability to measure the network means that these differences can be understood thoroughly and resolved unambiguously. This article aims to make recent results of this process accessible beyond Internet specialists to the broader scientific community and to clarify several sources of basic methodological differences that are relevant beyond either the Internet or the two specific approaches focused on here (i.e., scale-free networks and highly optimized tolerance networks).
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityJohn C. Doyle, David L. Alderson, Lun Li, Steven Low, Matthew Roughan, Stanislav Shalunov, Reiko Tanaka, and Walter Willinger
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 2005; 102(41):14497-14502
dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.0501426102
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424
dc.identifier.issn1091-6490
dc.identifier.orcidRoughan, M. [0000-0002-7882-7329]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/17845
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherNatl Acad Sciences
dc.rightsCopyright © 2005, The National Academy of Sciences
dc.source.urihttp://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/102/41/14497
dc.subjectComplex network, HOT, Internet topology, network design, scale-free network
dc.titleThe "robust yet fragile" nature of the Internet
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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