Evolution of the Internet Topology and Traffic Dynamics of Data Packets

Abstract

In recent years, the Internet has become one of the most influential media in our daily life, going beyond in its role as the basic infrastructure in the technological world. Explosive growth in the number of users and hence the amount of traffic poses a number of problems which are not only important in practice for, e.g., maintaining it free from any undesired congestion and malfunctioning, but also of theoretical interests as an interdisciplinary topic [1]. Such interests, also stimulated by other disciplines like biology, sociology, and statistical physics, have blossomed into a broader framework of network science [2, 3, 4]. The Internet is a primary example of complex networks.