... meaningful. The other metric, S, is definedas the ratio of the number of nodes in the giant connectedcomponent divided by the total number of nodes. One mightnotice the different characteristics of the ... explain some of the dynamic characteristics of the Internet. For example, wefound that the average degree of the Internet is frequentlychanging. It grew until the end of 1999 then decreased ... severalsnapshots of the real Internet topology.1On the other hand,[42], [43] have shown that the clustering coefficient of the Internet has been growing and that the average diameter of the Internet...