Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph
<|reference_start|>Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph: We propose a model for the World Wide Web graph that couples the topological growth with the traffic's dynamical evolution. The model is based on a simple traffic-driven dynamics and generates weighted directed graphs exhibiting the statistical properties observed in the Web. In particular, the model yields a non-trivial time evolution of vertices and heavy-tail distributions for the topological and traffic properties. The generated graphs exhibit a complex architecture with a hierarchy of cohesiveness levels similar to those observed in the analysis of real data.<|reference_end|>
@article{barrat2004traffic-driven,
    title={Traffic-driven model of the World Wide Web graph},
    author={Alain Barrat, Marc Barthelemy, Alessandro Vespignani},
    journal={LNCS 3243, 56 (2004)},
    year={2004},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0405070},
    primaryClass={cs.NI cond-mat.stat-mech}
}