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CORR
2010
Springer
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On the bias of BFS
Abstract--Breadth First Search (BFS) and other graph traversal techniques are widely used for measuring large unknown graphs, such as online social networks. It has been empiricall...
Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou, Patrick Thiran
CORR
2011
Springer
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12 years 11 months ago
Towards Unbiased BFS Sampling
Abstract—Breadth First Search (BFS) is a widely used approach for sampling large unknown Internet topologies. Its main advantage over random walks and other exploration technique...
Maciej Kurant, Athina Markopoulou, Patrick Thiran
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Walking in Facebook: A Case Study of Unbiased Sampling of OSNs
With more than 250 million active users, Facebook (FB) is currently one of the most important online social networks. Our goal in this paper is to obtain a representative (unbiased...
Minas Gjoka, Maciej Kurant, Carter T. Butts, Athin...