Geographical Characterization of the Web

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Abstract:

As the growth of the world wide web has spread around the world, it has become a major source of information and communication in more and more regions, many of which map to a country. In this paper, we look at how the web is partitioned into regions or countries and analyze the interconnection among regions by examining the hypertext links between them, based on a large scale graph of the web with more than a trillion edges, encompassing over 250 regions. Our results show that although most of the observed web linkage occurs within a region's borders, there is substantial interaction between regions. Our results deepen our understanding of the high level structure of the web, showing how links cross geographic boundaries.

Slides (outline): [1]

Presenter:

  • Xinh Huynh (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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