Review: A critical look at power law modelling of the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Richard G. Clegg;Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder;Shi Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University College London, London, United Kingdom;BT Research, Adastral Park, Ipswich, United Kingdom;Department of Computer Science, University College London, London, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper takes a critical look at the usefulness of power law models of the Internet. The twin focuses of the paper are Internet traffic and topology generation. The aim of the paper is twofold. Firstly it summarises the state of the art in power law modelling particularly giving attention to existing open research questions. Secondly it provides insight into the failings of such models and where progress needs to be made for power law research to feed through to actual improvements in network performance.