Interesting. IIRC for a network to be small world it does not have to
have power-law degree; power-law degree can be either small world or
scale free. We are hoping for small-world rather than scale-free as the
latter is extremely vulnerable but the former is very robust.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:18:13AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
> This paper has an interesting (but unproven) proposal for greedy 
> forwarding in networks with power law degree distributions: for each 
> neighbour of the current node, call its "greedy degree" the number of 
> its neighbours that are closer to the target than the current node, and 
> forward the message to the neighbour with the highest greedy degree.
> 
> http://www.rose-hulman.edu/mathjournal/2004/vol5-n2/paper7/v5n2-7pd.pdf
> 
> Cheers,
> Michael
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