=== Traffic pattern analysis and load balancing in negatively curved networks === Edmond A. Jonckheere \\ Electrical Engineering---Systems\\ and\\ Mathematics\\ University of Southern California Wednesday, April 14th, 2010\\ 2:00pm-3:00pm\\ EEB 248\\ **Abstract:** In the quest to identify a single parameter that would encapsulate such relevant properties of networks as their potential to create congestion, network investigators have for the past decade focused their attention on the Small-World/Scale-Free dichotomy. Here, it is argued that the all encompassing parameter that predicts network behavior is curvature. Curvature indeed anticipates congestion, should the network be negative curved. Curvature indeed anticipates a balanced load, should the network be positively curved. Curvature indeed guarantees successful greedy forwarding of packets in sensor networks, provided the curvature has been uniformized by the Ricci flow. Back to [[start | CommNetS Seminar Page ]]
