Network visualisation: A review

IET Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 365-372

  Withall, M ^a   Phillips, I ^a   Parish, D ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DATA REDUCTION; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

ABSTRACT TOPOLOGICAL VISUALIZATIONS; GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 34748862539     PISSN: 17518628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-com:20060169     Document Type: Article

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