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Technology Research News
July 2, 2003 |
Big sites hoard links University of London researchers have uncovered another clue about the Internet's structure -- the rich-club phenomenon. Large, well-connected nodes have more links to each other than to smaller nodes, and smaller nodes have more links to the larger nodes than to each other.   |
Science News
August 25, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Math Trek: Squashing Worms A mathematician and theoretical computer scientist at Microsoft Research has mathematically analyzed the question of which computers to patch first when a mutating worm is spreading through the Internet. |
Technology Research News
September 8, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Simple Search Lightens Net Load Researchers working on finding better ways to search the Internet are increasingly turning to methods that require individual nodes, or servers, to know a little bit about nearby servers, but don't require servers to look much beyond their own neighborhoods. |
Technology Research News
August 25, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Selective Shutdown Protects Nets Networks, including the Internet, are susceptible to cascade failures, which occur when nodes abruptly disconnect from the network. An effective defense is to knock out more nodes immediately after an initial failure. The key is picking the right nodes. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Suhas Sreedhar |
A New Way of Looking at the Internet The Net as a Matryoshka Doll: Scientists have constructed a new, more accurate picture of the Internet using a combination of graph-theory analysis and distributed computing. |
Technology Research News
July 2, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Study reveals Net's parts The Internet is rooted in the geopolitical boundaries of the real world -- its natural organization includes groupings that conform largely to national borders. Spaces between groupings are Internet fault lines that reveal where the global network is most vulnerable to splitting. apart. |
Technology Research News
June 29, 2005
Kimberly Patch |
Physics maps city complexity Researchers used existing biological and social networking models to analyze city streets. Area traffic was directly proportional to the ease of navigation, and street grids were complicated as areas tried to avoid getting too much traffic. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2006
Ted G. Lewis |
Netwar! Recent technology infrastructure failures each posed a problem of concern for homeland security: how to guard critical infrastructure that is so vast and complex that we cannot afford to protect every part or anticipate the ultimate effects of a disruption? |
