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The Rich-Club Phenomenon in the Internet Topology

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Zhou, S., Mondragon, R.J.·2004·IEEE Communications Letters
DOI 10.1109/lcomm.2004.823426
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We show that the Internet topology at the autonomous system (AS) level has a rich-club phenomenon. The rich nodes, which are a small number of nodes with large numbers of links, are very well connected to each other. The rich-club is a core tier that we measured using the rich-club connectivity and the node-node link distribution. We obtained this core tier without any heuristic assumption between the ASs. The rich-club phenomenon is a simple qualitative way to differentiate between power law topologies and provides a criterion for new network models. To show this, we compared the measured rich-club of the AS graph with networks obtained using the Baraba/spl acute/si-Albert (BA) scale-free network model, the Fitness BA model and the Inet-3.0 model.

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Authors
Zhou, S., & Mondragon, R. J.
Venue
IEEE Communications Letters
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Published
2004-03
Volume
8
Issue
3
Pages
180-182
ISSN
1089-7798 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1109/lcomm.2004.823426
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611
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10.23
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journal article
Language
en
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