Theory 61/Networks & Connectivity/Internet topology
Internet Resilience Is Degree
The claim
The resilience of the internet at the autonomous-system level is set by the ratio of peer links to transit links, not by node count.
01Mechanism
Peer links provide alternative paths that do not depend on a provider; transit links concentrate dependency.
02Prediction
Resilience should track the ratio.
03Refutation
Resilience tracking node count would remove the link structure.