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CORR
2011
Springer
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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...
CORR
2010
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
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
IMC
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
On unbiased sampling for unstructured peer-to-peer networks
This paper addresses the difficult problem of selecting representative samples of peer properties (e.g., degree, link bandwidth, number of files shared) in unstructured peer-to-p...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Sampling Techniques for Large, Dynamic Graphs
— Peer-to-peer systems are becoming increasingly popular, with millions of simultaneous users and a wide range of applications. Understanding existing systems and devising new pe...
Daniel Stutzbach, Reza Rejaie, Nick G. Duffield, S...