http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v1/n6/full/ncomms1063.html Sustaining the Internet with hyperbolic mapping Marián Boguñá, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos & Dmitri Krioukov Nature Communications 1 , Article number: 62 doi:10.1038/ncomms1063 Received 06 April 2010 Accepted 06 August 2010 Published 07 September 2010 Abstract The Internet infrastructure is severely stressed. Rapidly growing overheads associated with the primary function of the Internet—routing information packets between any two computers in the world—cause concerns among Internet experts that the existing Internet routing architecture may not sustain even another decade. In this paper, we present a method to map the Internet to a hyperbolic space. Guided by a constructed map, which we release with this paper, Internet routing exhibits scaling properties that are theoretically close to the best possible, thus resolving serious scaling limitations that the Internet faces today. Besides this immediate practical viability, our network mapping method can provide a different perspective on the community structure in complex networks. [full text snipped] -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE