A critical look at power law modelling of the Internet

作者：Clegg Richard G^*; Di Cairano Gilfedder Carla; Zhou Shi

来源：Computer Communications, 2010, 33(3): 259-268.

DOI：10.1016/j.comcom.2009.09.009

• Internet
• Power laws
• Heavy-tails
• Long-range dependence
• Scale-free networks
• Network modelling

This paper takes a critical look at the usefulness of power law models of the Internet. The twin focuses of the paper are Internet traffic and topology generation. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly it summarises the state of the art in power law modelling particularly giving attention to existing open research questions. Secondly it provides insight into the failings of such models and where progress needs to be made for power law research to feed through to actual improvements in network performance.

• 出版日期2010-2-28