Geographic routing in social networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 102, Issue 33, 2005, Pages 11623-11628

  Liben Nowell, David ^a,b,c   Novak, Jasmine ^b   Kumar, Ravi ^b,d   Raghavan, Prabhakar ^d,e   Tomkins, Andrew ^b,d  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d YAHOO RESEARCH   (United States)

^e Verity Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Population networks; Rank based friendships; Routing algorithms; Six degrees of separation; Small worlds

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FRIENDSHIP; GEOGRAPHY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; FRIENDS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 23844493748     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0503018102     Document Type: Article

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