Dynamic Complexity in the Internet Traffic

Abstract

The Internet is one of the most enormous autonomously distributed network systems created by human being. There is no central control in the Internet system, However, the Internet protocols enable information transmission in the widely opened and flexible network. The Internet is found to have a similar universal macroscopic behavior to those of natural materials, a dynamic phase transition. In this chapter, we report our observation and simulation results showing the evidence for the phase transition in the Internet between congested and non-congested phases accompanying critical fluctuations at the phase transition point.