Non-Uniform Distribution of Nodes in the Spatial Preferential Attachment Model
Abstract
The spatial preferential attachment (SPA) is a model for complex networks. In the SPA model, nodes are embedded in a metric space, and each node has a sphere of influence whose size increases if the node gains an in-link, and otherwise decreases with time. In this paper, we study the behaviour of the SPA model when the distribution of the nodes is non-uniform. Specifically, the space is divided into dense and sparse regions, where it is assumed that the dense regions correspond to coherent communities. We prove precise theoretical results regarding the degree of a node, the number of common neighbours, and the average out-degree in a region. Moreover, we show how these theoretically derived results about the graph properties of the model can be used to formulate a reliable estimator for the distance between certain pairs of nodes, and to estimate the density of the region containing a given node.
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@article{arxiv.1506.06053,
title = {Non-Uniform Distribution of Nodes in the Spatial Preferential Attachment Model},
author = {Jeannette Janssen and Pawel Pralat and Rory Wilson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06053},
year = {2015}
}