2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Networks Become Navigable as Nodes Move and Forget
verfasst von : Augustin Chaintreau, Pierre Fraigniaud, Emmanuelle Lebhar
Erschienen in: Automata, Languages and Programming
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We propose a dynamic process for network evolution, aiming at explaining the emergence of the small world phenomenon, i.e., the statistical observation that any pair of individuals are linked by a short chain of acquaintances computable by a simple decentralized routing algorithm, known as greedy routing. Our model is based on the combination of two dynamics: a random walk (spatial) process, and an harmonic forgetting (temporal) process. Both processes reflect natural behaviors of the individuals, viewed as nodes in the network of inter-individual acquaintances. We prove that, in
k
-dimensional lattices, the combination of these two processes generates long-range links mutually independently distributed as a
k
-harmonic distribution. We analyze the performances of greedy routing at the stationary regime of our process, and prove that the expected number of steps for routing from any source to any target in any multidimensional lattice is a polylogarithmic function of the distance between the two nodes in the lattice. Up to our knowledge, these results are the first formal proof that navigability in small worlds can emerge from a dynamic process for network evolution. Our dynamica process can find practical applications to the design of spatial gossip and resource location protocols.