Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping

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http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html 

Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping

Marián Boguñá, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos & Dmitri Krioukov

Nature Communications 1 , Article number: 62 doi:10.1038/ncomms1063

Received 06 April 2010 Accepted 06 August 2010 Published 07 September 2010

Abstract

The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overheads 
associated with the primary function of the Internet—routing information 
packets between any two computers in the world—cause concerns among Internet 
experts that the existing Internet routing architecture may not sustain even 
another decade. In this paper, we present a method to map the Internet to a 
hyperbolic space. Guided by a constructed map, which we release with this 
paper, Internet routing exhibits scaling properties that are theoretically 
close to the best possible, thus resolving serious scaling limitations that 
the Internet faces today. Besides this immediate practical viability, our 
network mapping method can provide a different perspective on the community structure 
in complex networks.

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