Theoretical Analysis of Geographic Routing in Social Networks

We introduce a formal model for geographic social networks, and introduce the notion of rank-based friendship, in which the probability that a person v is a friend of a person u is inversely proportional to the number of people w who live closer to u than v does. We then prove our main theorem, sho...

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Main Authors: Kumar, Ravi, Liben-Nowell, David, Novak, Jasmine, Raghavan, Prabhakar, Tomkins, Andrew
Other Authors: Theory of Computation
Language:en_US
Published: 2005
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30551