Small-world characteristics of Internet topologies and implications on multicast scaling

Computer Networks

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 648-666

  Jin, Shudong ^a   Bestavros, Azer ^b  

^a Case Western Reserve University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Internet topology; Multicast; Small world graphs

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; INTERNET TOPOLOGY;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; ESTIMATION; MULTICASTING; ROUTERS; TOPOLOGY; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

INTERNET;

EID: 31044438872     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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