Thursday, October 15, 2015

Part II Principles of Communications, 2015

This week (to Dec 16) I should have covered the graph material (random graphs + alpha&beta models of small world/clustered graphs), and
Compact and Centralised routing - viz
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1516/PrincComm/slides/schedule-2015.html

On graphs and networks there's a new really nice book by Jon Kleinberg


There's some lack of precision about the terms "small world" but basically, (wikipedia is your friend) a scale-free network refers to the power law degree distribution, and consequential small diameter (and some clustering), which leads to the small world property. Not all small world networks are scale free, but scale free networks are small world...

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