Computer Science – Networking and Internet Architecture
Scientific paper
2010-05-31
Computer Science
Networking and Internet Architecture
Under Review for SASO 2010
Scientific paper
Random scale-free overlay topologies provide a number of properties like for example high resilience against failures of random nodes, small (average) diameter as well as good expansion and congestion characteristics that make them interesting for the use in large-scale distributed systems. A number of these properties have been shown to be influenced by the exponent \gamma of their degree distribution P(k) ~ k^{-\gamma}. In this article, we present a distributed rewiring scheme that is suitable to effectuate scale-free overlay topologies with an adjustable exponent. The scheme uses a biased random walk strategy to sample new endpoints of edges being rewired and relies on a simple equilibrium model for scale-free networks. The bias of the random walk strategy can be tuned to produce random scale-free networks with arbitrary degree distribution exponents greater than two. We argue that the rewiring strategy can be implemented in a distributed fashion based on a node's information about its immediate neighbors. We present both analytical arguments as well as results that have been obtained using an implementation of the proposed protocol.
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