Could any graph be turned into a small-world?

  • Authors:
  • Philippe Duchon;Nicolas Hanusse;Emmanuelle Lebhar;Nicolas Schabanel

  • Affiliations:
  • LaBRI, Domaine universitaire, Talence Cedex, France;LaBRI, Domaine universitaire, Talence Cedex, France;LIP, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon Cedex, France;LIP, École normale supérieure de Lyon, Lyon Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science - Complex networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In addition to statistical graph properties (diameter, degree, clustering, etc.), Kleinberg [The small-world phenomenon: an algorithmic perspective, in: Proc. 32nd ACM Symp. on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2000, pp. 163-170] showed that a small-world can also be seen as a graph in which the routing task can be efficiently and easily done in spite of a lack of global knowledge. More precisely, in a lattice network augmented by extra random edges (but not chosen uniformly), a short path of polylogarithmic expected length can be found using a greedy algorithm with a local knowledge of the nodes. We call such a graph a navigable small-world since short paths exist and can be followed with partial knowledge of the network. In this paper, we show that a wide class of graphs can be augmented into navigable small-worlds.