The spatial structure of networks

Details The spatial structure of networks The spatial structure of networks

2004-07-26

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407680v1

Eur. Phys. J. B 49, 247-252 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjb/e2006-00046-8

We study networks that connect points in geographic space, such as transportation networks and the Internet. We find that there are strong signatures in these networks of topography and use patterns, giving the networks shapes that are quite distinct from one another and from non-geographic networks. We offer an explanation of these differences in terms of the costs and benefits of transportation and communication, and give a simple model based on the Monte Carlo optimization of these costs and benefits that reproduces well the qualitative features of the networks studied.

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