| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 72, Number 2, October 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 308 - 314 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10232-x | |
| Published online | 14 September 2005 | |
Minimum spanning trees of weighted scale-free networks
Center for Network Research and Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Corresponding author: alb@nd.edu
Received:
18
July
2005
Accepted:
26
August
2005
A complete characterization of real networks requires us to understand the consequences of the uneven interaction strengths between a system's components. Here we use minimum spanning trees (MSTs) to explore the effect of correlations between link weights and network topology on scale-free networks. Solely by changing the nature of the correlations between weights and network topology, the structure of the MSTs can change from scale-free to exponential. Additionally, for some choices of weight correlations, the efficiency of the MSTs increases with increasing network size, a result with potential implications for the design and scalability of communication networks.
PACS: 89.75.Fb – Structures and organization in complex systems / 89.75.Hc – Networks and genealogical trees / 89.20.Hh – World Wide Web, Internet
© EDP Sciences, 2005
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