06-06-2012, 11:28 AM
The Awakening Internet
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The internet Map 2001
Without knowing the internets topology it is impossible to design better tools and services.
E-mail leaked out.
The internet lives a life of its own.
It has all the char of complex evolving system.
Many diverse components, developed separetely contribute to the functioning of a system that is far more than the sum of its parts.
Neither computer scientists nor boilogists known is how the large scale structure emerges once we put the Pieces togeather.
Vern paxon & Sally floyd, identified our limited knowledge of the network topology as the main obstacle towards a better understanding of the internet as whole.
Two years later 3 greek computer scientist brothers showed that the internet is a collection of routers linked by various physical lines, is a Scale Free Network.
Their discovery had a simple message that quickly penetrated the research community.
All tools used to model the structure of the internet before 1999, based on ideas rooted in random networks were simply wrong.
After all, internet is comprised of physical lines and routers.
In october 1969 charley kline, was asked to arrange the first computer to computer message through an ordinary telephone line.
After he succeded, more nodes were joining the network and the system was beginning to spread its wings.
Today 2 decades later, it continues to expand node-by-node.(1st cond..of (SFN)scale-free network)
Preferential attachment is more subtle. (2nd cond..of SFN)
Routers offering more bandwidth likely have more links.
Routers are added where there is a demand for them, and demand depends on the number of people wanting to use the internet.
The amazing thing is that these coexisting mechanisms delicately balance each other, maintaining a scale free network. This very balance of power is the internets own Achilles Heel.
Conclusion
Our skin is a unique piece of engg.
Our planet is evolving into a single vast computer made of billions of interconnected processors and sensors.
The questio being asked by many is, ’When will this computer become selfaware?’
It is impossible to predict when the internet will become selfaware, but clearly it already lives a life of its own.