Types of Networks...
from the network-fun dept
mhh5 writes "Apparently networks come in two flavors according to a Nature article: exponential and scale-free. Exponential networks are pretty homogeneous, so targeted attacks and random attacks have pretty much the same effect on the network. Scale-free networks (like the internet) contain a few highly connected nodes, so targeted attacks can be devastating whereas random attacks are often unnoticeable. This may all sound pretty obvious.. However, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't P2P and the WWW examples of both kinds of networks, respectively? If we combine the two, do we get a super-resistant communication network?"
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