The topology of dark networks

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 58-65

  Xu, Jennifer ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURT PROCEEDINGS; LARGE NETWORKS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; OPEN SOURCES; SCALE-FREE; SMALL WORLDS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TERRORIST NETWORKS; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 53349107314     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1400181.1400198     Document Type: Article

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