An integrated model of traffic, geography and economy in the internet

  • Authors:
  • Petter Holme;Josh Karlin;Stephanie Forrest

  • Affiliations:
  • University of New Mexico and Royal Institute of Technology;University of New Mexico;University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Modeling Internet growth is important both for understanding the current network and to predict and improve its future. To date, Internet models have typically attempted to explain a subset of the following characteristics: network structure, traffic flow, geography, and economy. In this paper we present a discrete, agent-based model, that integrates all of them. We show that the model generates networks with topologies, dynamics, and more speculatively spatial distributions that are similar to the Internet.