%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluating the AS-level Internet models: beyond topological characteristics<br>
%A Fan Zheng-Ping
%A <br>
%J 中国物理 B
%D 2012
%I 
%X A surge number of models has been proposed to model the Internet in the past decades. However, the issue on which models are better to model the Internet has still remained a problem. By analysing the evolving dynamics of the Internet, we suggest that at the autonomous system (AS) level, a suitable Internet model, should at least be heterogeneous and have a linearly growing mechanism. More importantly, we show that the roles of topological characteristics in evaluating and differentiating Internet models are apparently over-estimated from an engineering perspective. Also, we find that an assortative network is not necessarily more robust than a disassortative network and that a smaller average shortest path length does not necessarily mean a higher robustness, which is different from the previous observations. Our analytic results are helpful not only for the Internet, but also for other general complex networks.
%K AS-level Internet
%K scale-free model
%K robustness<br>
%U http://www.alljournals.cn/get_abstract_url.aspx?pcid=6E709DC38FA1D09A4B578DD0906875B5B44D4D294832BB8E&cid=47EA7CFDDEBB28E0&jid=CD8D6A6897B9334F09D8D1648C376FB4&aid=A530BD0973665D3929868F3B13A7F61C&yid=99E9153A83D4CB11&vid=659D3B06EBF534A7&iid=0B39A22176CE99FB&sid=F8FDD8D202E0313B&journal_id=1009-1963&journal_name=中国物理&referenced_num=0&reference_num=28