Another view of the Internet's fragility

["Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via PhysOrg.com:

[snip]

Researchers have built mathematical models of the Internet and used them to study the robustness of the system. One 
type of model, called a "scale-free" network, portrays the Internet as being unaffected by random component failures, 
but vulnerable to targeted attacks on highly connected hubs.

John Doyle and colleagues at the California Institute of Technology examined the abstract models and compared them with 
the organizing principles behind the Internet. They found that at the router level, the current Internet does not have 
most characteristics predicted by the scale-free models.

[snip]

http://www.physorg.com/news6940.html

- ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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