Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping

Marián Boguñá (), Fragkiskos Papadopoulos and Dmitri Krioukov
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Marián Boguñá: Departament de Física Fonamental, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1
Fragkiskos Papadopoulos: University of Cyprus, Kallipoleos 75
Dmitri Krioukov: Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, University of California, San Diego

Nature Communications, 2010, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-8

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2010
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