Saturday, March 24, 2007

Blogosphere paper

Duarte, Fernando; Mattos, Bernardo; Bestavros, Azer; Almeida, Virgilio; Almeida, Jussara. Traffic Characteristics and Communication Patterns in Blogosphere, December 15, 2006.
http://www.cs.bu.edu/techreports/pdf/2006-033-blog-characterization.pdf


nice paper !
The paper discuss about traffic characteristics of blogosphere. Some important notes:
- Marginal distribution of transfer size, it show heavy tail ! near to pareto distribution.
- Access patterns (bytes transfer, #distinct blogs accessed with read/write request, and # read/write request sent by blogosphere visitors) show diurnal pattern !

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