Power-law Relationships of the Internet Topology
In general, the Internet topology has been studied in terms of metrics such as node outdegree and length-based metrics.
This paper proposes a novel perspective of the structure of the Internet
Found that many distributions of interest are skewed, typically following a power-law
Power-laws are expressions of the form y “is prop” xa, where a is a constant
Power-laws have been used to describe traffic in communication networks but not their topologies.
Both, self-similarity and heavy-tails appear in network traffic and are both related to power-laws.