Software defined networking (SDN) decouples the control plane from the data plane of
forwarding devices. This separation provides several benefits, including the simplification of …

Since the beginning of the nineties, the internet has undergone impressive growth. This
growth can be appreciated in terms of the equipment, such as routers and links, that has …

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'Network'is a heavily overloaded term, so that 'network analysis' means different things to
different people. Specific forms of network analysis are used in the study of diverse …

This 2007 book provides a systematic and self-contained account of the fast-develo**
theory of complex social networks. Social networks are central to the understanding of most …

We study and characterize the topology of the Internet at the autonomous system (AS) level.
First, we show that the topology can be described efficiently with power laws. The elegance …

Following the long-held belief that the Internet is hierarchical, the network topology
generators most widely used by the Internet research community, Transit-Stub and Tiers …

In this report we present version 3.0 of Inet, an Autonomous System (AS) level Internet
topology generator. Our understanding of the Internet topology is quickly evolving, and thus …

A graph is an abstract model that represents relations among entities, for example, the
interactions between characters in a novel. A background story endows entities and …

This book is the culmination of three years of research effort on a multidisciplinary project in
which physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists and social scientists worked together …