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Abbreviations

Autonomous system (AS):

An autonomous system is a connected group of one or more IP prefixes, run by one or more network operators, which has a single and clearly defined routing policy. A unique AS number (or ASN) is allocated to each AS for identification purpose in inter‐domain routing among ASes. For example, an organization, such as an ISP or a university, is an example of an AS. Some organizations may have more than one AS and thus have more than one AS number.

BGP (border gateway protocol):

The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) version 4 is the de facto routing protocol used in the Internet to exchange reachability information among ASes and interconnect them. The current BGP is version 4.

Degree:

The degree of an AS (or a node) is the number of neighbors of this AS (or node).

CCDF:

The complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of a degree is the percentage of nodes that have a degree greater than the degree of interest.

Degree rank:

The degree rank of a node is its index in a list of degrees, ranked in decreasing order.

Eigenvalue:

Let A be an \( { N\times N } \) matrix. If there is a vector \( { X\in \mathcal{R}^N \neq 0 } \) such that \( { AX=\lambda X } \) for some scalar λ, then λ is called the eigenvalue of A with corresponding eigenvector X.

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He, Y., Siganos, G., Faloutsos, M. (2009). Internet Topology. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_293

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