Scientists are worried that the Internet is becoming a clogged superhighway, complete with bottlenecks where information seems to disappear.
These electronic misfires are called Internet black holes. And, they seem to be a result of limited routing architecture.
But a team at University of California, San Diego is trying to uncover the hidden shape of the overall network to help open up the information arteries that get information across the globe in just a few seconds.
A new math model is based on the 1990s party game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, which uses a sociology theory called the “small-world” paradigm.
While that team tries to understand the structure of the Internet, a team at University of Washington is mapping the black holes as they appear.
