期刊名称:International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications
印刷版ISSN:0975-2293
电子版ISSN:0974-9322
出版年度:2012
卷号:4
期号:3
DOI:10.5121/ijcnc.2012.4311
出版社:Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)
摘要:The degree distribution of the Internet topology is considered as one of its main properties. However, it is only known through a measurement procedure which gives a biased estimate. This measurement may in first approximation be modeled by a BFS (Breadth-First Search) tree. We explore here our ability to infer the type (Poisson or power-law) of the degree distribution from such a limited knowledge. We design procedures which estimate the degree distribution of a graph from a BFS of it, and show experimentally (on models and real-world data) that this approach succeeds in making the difference between Poisson and power-law degree distributions