Robustness Analyses of Internet Topology with Power-law Features
Ye Xu, Wen-xuan Ma · International Journal of Future Generation Communication and Networking · 2014
For a better predicting and a trying to improve the performance of Internet, we try to study the characteristics of the Internet topology in the autonomous system.Firstly, we put focus on power-law characteristics of Internet topology and give power-law distribution comparison experiments between Internet topology and that of the small-world network.Experiments show clearly that the topology of the Internet has power-law distribution.Secondly, we focus on study the robustness of Internet topology, and experiments show that Internet is robust to random failures and fragile to target attacks.However, a reasonable allocation of network redundancy and network load can make a network strong and low-cost with abilities to be robust under target attacks.