Posts Tagged AS graph

The surprising centres of the Internet

Dec 12, 2013 at 15:39 · Filed under Technology ·Tagged , , , , , , , ,

A previous post, on “Barabási – Albert preferential attachment and the Internet“, gave a plot of  the Internet, as a sparsity map of its regular adjacency matrix, with the axes ordered by each ASes  eigencentrality:

Sparsity plot of the Internet adjacency matrix, for the UCLA IRL 2013-06 data-set, with the nodes ordered by their Eigencentrality ranking.

Sparsity plot of the Internet adjacency matrix, for the UCLA IRL 2013-06 data-set, with the nodes ordered by their Eigencentrality ranking.

Each connection in the BGP AS graph is represented as a dot, connecting the AS on the one axis to the AS on the other. As the BGP AS graph is undirected, the plot ends up symmetric. The top-right corner of this plot shows that the most highly-ranked ASes are very densely interconnected. The distinct outline probably is indicative (characteristic?) of a tree-like hierarchy in the data.

Who are these top-ranked ASes though? Are they large, well-known telecommunications companies? The answer might be surprising.

Read the rest of this entry »

Leave a Comment

Barabási – Albert preferential attachment and the Internet

Dec 2, 2013 at 02:03 · Filed under Technology ·Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Barabási – Albert paper “Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks” helped popularise the preferential-attachment model of graphs, and its relevance to a number of real-world graphs. There’s a small, somewhat trivial tweak to that model that can be made which never the less changes its characteristics slightly, with the result possibly being more relevant to the BGP AS graph. GNU Octave and Java implementations are given for the original BA-model and the tweak. The tweak can also potentially improve performance of vectorised implementations, such as Octave/Matlab.

Read the rest of this entry »

Comments (1)