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We consider in this paper the problem of discovering, via a traceroute algorithm, the topology of a network, whose graph is spanned by an infinite branching process. A subset of nodes is selected according to some criterion. As a measure of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Fabrice Guillemin , Philippe Robert

Network topology inference is a fundamental problem in many applications of network science, such as locating the source of fake news, brain connectivity networks detection, etc. Many real-world situations suffer from a critical problem…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-22 Yupeng Chen , Zhiguo Wang , Xiaojing Shen

Network tomography is a crucial problem in network monitoring, where the observable path performance metric values are used to infer the unobserved ones, making it essential for tasks such as route selection, fault diagnosis, and traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuntong Hu , Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao

Many community detection algorithms require the introduction of a measure on the set of nodes. Previously, a lot of efforts have been made to find the top-performing measures. In most cases, experiments were conducted on several datasets or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Rinat Aynulin

The network inference problem consists of reconstructing the edge set of a network given traces representing the chronology of infection times as epidemics spread through the network. This problem is a paradigmatic representative of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Bruno Abrahao , Flavio Chierichetti , Robert Kleinberg , Alessandro Panconesi

This paper addresses the problem of identifying the graph structure of a dynamical network using measured input/output data. This problem is known as topology identification and has received considerable attention in recent literature. Most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Henk J. van Waarde , Pietro Tesi , M. Kanat Camlibel

Traceroute measurements are one of our main instruments to shed light onto the structure and properties of today's complex networks such as the Internet. This paper studies the feasibility and infeasibility of inferring the network topology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Yvonne Anne Pignolet , Stefan Schmid , Gilles Tredan

We provide an efficient algorithm for determining how a road network has evolved over time, given two snapshot instances from different dates. To allow for such determinations across different databases and even against hand drawn maps, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-26 M T Goodrich , Siddharth Gupta , Manuel R. Torres

Network inference is a rapidly advancing field, with new methods being proposed on a regular basis. Understanding the advantages and limitations of different network inference methods is key to their effective application in different…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-09-15 Narsis A. Kiani , Hector Zenil , Jakub Olczak , Jesper Tegnér

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier

The graph identification problem consists of discovering the interactions among nodes in a network given their state/feature trajectories. This problem is challenging because the behavior of a node is coupled to all the other nodes by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

One major open problem in network coding is to characterize the capacity region of a general multi-source multi-demand network. There are some existing computational tools for bounding the capacity of general networks, but their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Michelle Effros , Tracey Ho , Shirin Jalali

Networks are important representations in computer science to communicate structural aspects of a given system of interacting components. The evolution of a network has several topological properties that can provide us information on the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Joao Pita Costa , Tihana Galinac Grbac

A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network can boost its performance if peers are provided with underlying network-layer routing topology. The task of inferring the network-layer routing topology and link performance from an end host to a set of other…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Peng Qin , Bin Dai , Kui Wu , Benxiong Huang , Guan Xu

We present an algorithm to compute path homology for simple digraphs, and use it to topologically analyze various small digraphs en route to an analysis of complex temporal networks which exhibit such digraphs as underlying motifs. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Samir Chowdhury , Steve Huntsman , Matvey Yutin

We consider the problem of estimating the topology of multiple networks from nodal observations, where these networks are assumed to be drawn from the same (unknown) random graph model. We adopt a graphon as our random graph model, which is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-21 Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Learning graphs from sets of nodal observations represents a prominent problem formally known as graph topology inference. However, current approaches are limited by typically focusing on inferring single networks, and they assume that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques

In this article, we present a method to reconstruct the topology of a partially observed radial network of linear dynamical systems with bi-directional interactions. Our approach exploits the structure of the inverse power spectral density…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Saurav Talukdar , Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Murti Salapaka

Network theory provides various tools for investigating the structural or functional topology of many complex systems found in nature, technology and society. Nevertheless, it has recently been realised that a considerable number of systems…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-03-23 Jonathan F. Donges , Hanna C. H. Schultz , Norbert Marwan , Yong Zou , Juergen Kurths

High throughput is of particular interest in data center and HPC networks. Although myriad network topologies have been proposed, a broad head-to-head comparison across topologies and across traffic patterns is absent, and the right way to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi , Ankit Singla , P. Brighten Godfrey , Alexandra Kolla