Het Nederlands elftal als complex netwerk

In de zomer van 2008, tijdens het Europees Kampioenschap voetbal in Zwitserland en Oostenrijk, zullen weer miljoenen mensen de verrichtingen van het Nederlands elftal op de voet volgen. Ondanks het feit dat voetbal razend populair is, bestaat er vanuit de wetenschappelijke wereld relatief weinig interesse voor voetbal. In dit artikel bestuderen...

Conception de réseau iBGP

BGP is used today by all Autonomous Systems (AS) in the Internet. Inside each AS, iBGP sessions distribute the external routes among the routers. In large ASs, relying on a fullmesh of iBGP sessions between routers is not scalable, so route-reflection is commonly used. The scalability of route-reflection compared to an iBGP full-mesh comes at...

ON THE RELEVANCE OF ON-LINE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING

The evaluation of dynamic Traffic Engineering (TE) algorithms is usually carried out using some specific network(s), traffic pattern(s) and traffic engineering objective(s). As the behavior of a TE algorithm is a consequence of the interactions between the network, the traffic demand and the algorithm itself, the relevance of TE may depend on...

Analytical Model for Mesh-based P2PVoD

Recently, there has been a growing interest in academic and commercial environments for Video-on-Demand (VoD) using Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology. Unlike centralized solutions for VoD services, P2P technology lets the clients distribute video content among themselves. In this paper, we propose an analytical model for P2PVoD and we compare that...

Weight of the Shortest Path to the First Encountered Peer in a Peer Group of Size m

We model the weight (e.g. delay, distance or cost) from an arbitrary node to the nearest (in weight) peer in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. The exact probability generating function and an asymptotic analysis is presented for a random graph with i.i.d. exponential link weights. The asymptotic distribution function is a Fermi-Dirac distribution...

Crawling and Detecting Community Structure in Online Social Networks using Local Information

As Online Social Networks (OSNs) become an intensive sub- ject of research for example in computer science, networking, social sci- ences etc., a growing need for valid and useful datasets is present. The time taken to crawl the network is however introducing a bias which should be minimized. Usual ways of addressing this problem are sampling...