Circulant Graph Modeling Deterministic Small-World Networks

In recent years, many research works have revealed some technological networks including internet to be small-world networks, which is attracting attention from computer scientists. One can decide if or not a real network is Small-world by whether it has high local clustering and small average path distance which are the two distinguishing characteristics of small-world networks. So far, researchers have presented many small-world models by dynamically evolving a deterministic network into a small world one by stochastic adding vertices and edges to original networks. Rather few works focused on deterministic models. In this paper, as a important kind of Cayley graph, the circulant graph is proposed as models of deterministic small-world networks, thinking if its simple structures and significant adaptability. It shows circulant graph constructed in this document takes on the two expected characteristics of small word. This work should be useful because circulant graph has serviced as some models of communication and computer networks. The small world characteristic will be helpful to design and analysis of structure and performance.