Network topologies: Inference, modeling, and generation

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 48-69

  Haddadi, Hamed ^a   Rio, Miguel ^a   Iannaccone, Gianluca ^b   Moore, Andrew ^c   Mortier, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Intel Corporation   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Vipadia Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; FAILURE DETECTION; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; INTERNET TOPOLOGIES; MODELING TECHNIQUE; OPTIMAL ROUTING ALGORITHM; REALISTIC SIMULATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH; TOPOLOGY;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84892619905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2008.4564479     Document Type: Review

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