Omori's law in the Internet traffic
Statistical Mechanics
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
The Internet is a complex system, whose temporal behavior is highly nonstationary and exhibits sudden drastic changes regarded as main shocks or catastrophes. Here, analyzing a set of time series data of round-trip tim measured in echo experiment with the Ping Command, the property of "aftershocks" (i.e., catastrophes of smaller scales) after a main shock is studied. It is found that the aftershocks obey Omori's law. Thus, the Internet shares with earthquakes and financial market crashes a common scale-invariant feature in the temporal patterns of aftershocks.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206453,
title = {Omori's law in the Internet traffic},
author = {Sumiyoshi Abe and Norikazu Suzuki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206453},
year = {2009}
}
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10 pages, 3 figures