{"title":"Analysis for Topological Properties of the Network Feeding Usenet News","authors":"Yutaka Nakano, Motonori Nakamura, Y. Okabe","doi":"10.1109/SAINT.2007.9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Recently, many studies have reported that various kinds of real networks, such as WWW, the Internet, metabolic system, BtoB transactions and so on, have the scale-free properties in common. We focus on the network feeding Usenet news where a node represents a news server and a link between two nodes represents a connection on which the two news servers exchange their articles. First we generate the whole topology map approximately from path information of a number of Usenet news articles. Then we examine topological properties of the network; degree distribution, degree correlation, average distance, clustering coefficient and community structures. We also compare these properties with those of theoretical network models. The analysis shows that there strongly exist a scale-free and a small-world properties in the Usenet network. We also examine the community structure of this network and show that a small number of Usenet news servers that are highly contributive for article feeds forms the largest community and other servers tend to be categorized by their geographical locations","PeriodicalId":440345,"journal":{"name":"2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2007 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAINT.2007.9","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Recently, many studies have reported that various kinds of real networks, such as WWW, the Internet, metabolic system, BtoB transactions and so on, have the scale-free properties in common. We focus on the network feeding Usenet news where a node represents a news server and a link between two nodes represents a connection on which the two news servers exchange their articles. First we generate the whole topology map approximately from path information of a number of Usenet news articles. Then we examine topological properties of the network; degree distribution, degree correlation, average distance, clustering coefficient and community structures. We also compare these properties with those of theoretical network models. The analysis shows that there strongly exist a scale-free and a small-world properties in the Usenet network. We also examine the community structure of this network and show that a small number of Usenet news servers that are highly contributive for article feeds forms the largest community and other servers tend to be categorized by their geographical locations