Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph
Networking and Internet Architecture
2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We propose a model for the World Wide Web graph that couples the topological growth with the traffic's dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple traffic-driven dynamics and generates weighted directed graphs exhibiting the statistical properties observed in the Web. In particular, the model yields a non-trivial time evolution of vertices and heavy-tail distributions for the topological and traffic properties. The generated graphs exhibit a complex architecture with a hierarchy of cohesiveness levels similar to those observed in the analysis of real data.
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@article{arxiv.cs/0405070,
title = {Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph},
author = {Alain Barrat and Marc Barthelemy and Alessandro Vespignani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0405070},
year = {2007}
}