Dynamic Exploration of Networks: from general principles to the traceroute process

@misc{citeulike:1419431, abstract = {Dynamical processes taking place on real networks define on them evolving subnetworks whose topology is not necessarily the same of the underlying one. We investigate the problem of determining the emerging degree distribution, focusing on a class of tree-like processes, such as those used to explore the Internet's topology. A general theory based on mean-field arguments is proposed, both for single-source and multiple-source cases, and applied to the specific example of the traceroute exploration of networks. Our results provide a qualitative improvement in the understanding of dynamical sampling and of the interplay between dynamics and topology in large networks like the Internet.}, author = {Dall\&\#x27;asta, Luca }, citeulike-article-id = {1419431}, eprint = {0706.3768}, keywords = {exploration, graph, network}, month = {Jun}, posted-at = {2007-06-28 13:01:03}, priority = {2}, title = {Dynamic Exploration of Networks: from general principles to the traceroute process}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3768}, year = {2007} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1419431 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1419431 TI - Dynamic Exploration of Networks: from general principles to the traceroute process N2 - Dynamical processes taking place on real networks define on them evolving subnetworks whose topology is not necessarily the same of the underlying one. We investigate the problem of determining the emerging degree distribution, focusing on a class of tree-like processes, such as those used to explore the Internet's topology. A general theory based on mean-field arguments is proposed, both for single-source and multiple-source cases, and applied to the specific example of the traceroute exploration of networks. Our results provide a qualitative improvement in the understanding of dynamical sampling and of the interplay between dynamics and topology in large networks like the Internet. KW - exploration KW - graph KW - network AU - Dall'asta, Luca PY - 2007/Jun/26/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3768 ER -