The "Robust Yet Fragile" Nature of the Internet
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Authors
Alderson, D.
Roughan, M.
Shalunov, S.
Tanaka, R.
Willinger, W.
Doyle, J.
Li, L.
Low, S.
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Internet
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2005
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2005
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The search for unifying properties of complex networks is popular, challenging, and important. For modeling approaches that focus on robustness and fragility as unifying concepts, the Internet is an especially attractive case study, mainly because its applications are ubiquitous and pervasive, and widely available expositions exist at every level of detail. Nevertheless, alternative approaches to modeling the Internet often make extremely different assumptions and derive opposite conclusions about fundamental properties of one and the same system. Fortunately, a detailed understanding of Internet technology combined with a unique ability to measure the network means that these differences can be understood thoroughly and resolved unambiguously. This article aims to make recent results of this process accessible beyond Internet specialists to the broader scientific community and to clarify several sources of basic methodological differences that are relevant beyond either the Internet or the two specific approaches focused on here (i.e., scale-free networks and highly optimized tolerance networks).
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, pp. 14497‐14502.
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501426102
Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID) Paper.
The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0501426102
Center for Infrastructure Defense (CID) Paper.
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Department of Operations Research
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J. Doyle, D. Alderson, L. Li, S. Low, M. Roughan, S. Shalunov, R. Tanaka, and W. Willinger, 2005, “The ‘Robust Yet Fragile’ Nature of the Internet,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102, pp. 14497‐14502.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.