This seems like it would be of interest to RRG members. Regards Marshall
Begin forwarded message: > From: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> > Date: September 9, 2010 6:23:26 AM EDT > To: NANOG list <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], forkit! <[email protected]> > Subject: Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping > > > http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html > > Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping > > Marián Boguñá, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos & Dmitri Krioukov > > Nature Communications 1 , Article number: 62 doi:10.1038/ncomms1063 > > Received 06 April 2010 Accepted 06 August 2010 Published 07 September 2010 > > Abstract > > The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overheads > associated with the primary function of the Internet—routing information > packets between any two computers in the world—cause concerns among Internet > experts that the existing Internet routing architecture may not sustain even > another decade. In this paper, we present a method to map the Internet to a > hyperbolic space. Guided by a constructed map, which we release with this > paper, Internet routing exhibits scaling properties that are theoretically > close to the best possible, thus resolving serious scaling limitations that > the Internet faces today. Besides this immediate practical viability, our > network mapping method can provide a different perspective on the community > structure > in complex networks. > > [full text snipped] > > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE > > _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
