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This paper presents an analytical framework to model fault-tolerance in unstructured peer-to-peer overlays, represented as complex networks. We define a distributed protocol peers execute for managing the overlay and reacting to node…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-09 Stefano Ferretti

The focus of this work is on estimation of the in-degree distribution in directed networks from sampling network nodes or edges. A number of sampling schemes are considered, including random sampling with and without replacement, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-03 Nelson Antunes , Shankar Bhamidi , Tianjian Guo , Vladas Pipiras , Bang Wang

Network theory and inverse modeling are two standard tools of applied physics, whose combination is needed when studying the dynamical organization of spatially distributed systems from indirect measurements. However, the associated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-30 Vincent Wens

The entropy of network ensembles characterizes the amount of information encoded in the network structure, and can be used to quantify network complexity, and the relevance of given structural properties observed in real network datasets…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-06-18 Kartik Anand , Dimitri Krioukov , Ginestra Bianconi

We present an analytical approach to calculating the distribution of shortest paths lengths (also called intervertex distances, or geodesic paths) between nodes in unweighted undirected networks. We obtain very accurate results for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-04-20 Sergey Melnik , James P. Gleeson

Recent work on the internet, social networks, and the power grid has addressed the resilience of these networks to either random or targeted deletion of network nodes. Such deletions include, for example, the failure of internet routers or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. S. Callaway , M. E. J. Newman , S. H. Strogatz , D. J. Watts

We have studied transportation network, namely a road network of the Moscow region and airline network of the Russian Federation. We have constructed corresponding networks and studied degree distribution and length distribution for these…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-05-26 T. B. Progulova , B. R. Gadjiev

Complex networks datasets often come with the problem of missing information: interactions data that have not been measured or discovered, may be affected by errors, or are simply hidden because of privacy issues. This Element provides an…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-08-11 Giulio Cimini , Rossana Mastrandrea , Tiziano Squartini

Pairwise network comparison is essential for various applications, including neuroscience, disease research, and dynamic network analysis. While existing literature primarily focuses on comparing entire network structures, we address a…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-21 Runbing Zheng

We propose a novel measure of degree heterogeneity, for unweighted and undirected complex networks, which requires only the degree distribution of the network for its computation. We show that the proposed measure can be applied to all…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-03 Rinku Jacob , K. P. Harikrishnan , R. Misra , G. Ambika

Large bibliographic networks are sparse -- the average node degree is small. This is not necessarily true for their product -- in some cases, it can ``explode'' (it is not sparse, increases in time and space complexity). An approach in such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-10 Vladimir Batagelj

In random graph models, the degree distribution of an individual node should be distinguished from the (empirical) degree distribution of the graph that records the fractions of nodes with given degree. We introduce a general framework to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Siddharth Pal , Armand M. Makowski

Extensive researches have been dedicated to investigating the performance of real networks and synthetic networks against random failures or intentional attack guided by degree (degree attack). Degree is one of straightforward measures to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-09-26 Hui Wang , Jinyuan Huang , Xiaomin Xu , Yanghua Xiao , Wei Wang

The need to produce accurate estimates of vertex degree in a large network, based on observation of a subnetwork, arises in a number of practical settings. We study a formalized version of this problem, wherein the goal is, given a randomly…

Applications · Statistics 2017-01-26 Apratim Ganguly , Eric Kolaczyk

We consider distributed networks, such as peer-to-peer networks, whose structure can be manipulated by adjusting the rules by which vertices enter and leave the network. We focus in particular on degree distributions and show that, with…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-10-18 Gourab Ghoshal , M. E. J. Newman

We deal with a random graph model where at each step, a vertex is chosen uniformly at random, and it is either duplicated or its edges are deleted. Duplication has a given probability. We analyse the limit distribution of the degree of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Ágnes Backhausz , Tamás F. Móri

Owing to their capability of summarising interactions between elements of a system, networks have become a common type of data in many fields. As networks can be inhomogeneous, in that different regions of the network may exhibit different…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-27 Paulo Serra , Michel Mandjes

We consider the problem of identifying the topology of a weighted, undirected network $\mathcal G$ from observing snapshots of multiple independent consensus dynamics. Specifically, we observe the opinion profiles of a group of agents for a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Santiago Segarra , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie

Recent work on the structure of social networks and the internet has focussed attention on graphs with distributions of vertex degree that are significantly different from the Poisson degree distributions that have been widely studied in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. E. J. Newman , S. H. Strogatz , D. J. Watts

The degree distribution is an important characteristic of complex networks. In many data analysis applications, the networks should be represented as fixed-length feature vectors and therefore the feature extraction from the degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-07-23 Sadegh Aliakbary , Jafar Habibi , Ali Movaghar