title: Designer nets from local strategies.
abstract: We propose a local strategy for constructing scale-free networks of arbitrary degree distributions, based on the redirection method of Krapivsky and Redner [Phys. Rev. E 63, 066123 (2001)]. Our method includes a set of external parameters that can be tuned at will to match detailed behavior at small degree k, in addition to the scale-free power-law tail signature at large k. Once achieved, the target distribution is maintained throughout the growth of the net. The method is local in that addition of a new node requires knowledge of only the immediate environs of the (randomly selected) node to which it is attached. (Global strategies require information on finite fractions of the growing net.)
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5820, USA. rozenfhd@clarkson.edu
authors.forename: Hernán D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Rozenfeld
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: ben-Avraham