Dynamo Training School, Lisbon Introduction to Dynamic Networks
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Connectivity & Capacity Properties
• Congestion in certain uniform multicommodity flow
problems:
– Suppose each pair of nodes is a source-destination pair for a
unit flow
– What will be the congestion on the most congested edge of
the graph, assuming uniform capacities
– Comparison with expander graphs, which would tend to have
the least congestion
• For power law graphs with constant average degree,
congestion is O(n log
2
n) with high probability [GMS03]
– Ω(n) is a lower bound
• For preferential attachment model, congestion is O(n log n)
with high probability [MPS03]
• Analysis by proving a lower bound on conductance, and
hence expansion of the network