Research Article

A Network Sampling Strategy Inspired by Epidemic Spreading

Table 2

The D-statistics of degree distributions of 8 sampling algorithms on 9 real-world datasets, where the sampling ratio is .

NetworkRWRWIFFFFIMHRWMHRWIBFSCPS

PowerGrid0.0680.0710.0750.0750.0860.0770.0720.072
Amazon0.3940.0750.1930.0450.3520.0840.0550.057
WordNet0.4850.0500.2250.0400.3580.0480.0550.018
AstroPh0.6330.0590.2900.0560.5910.0500.0840.026
Livemocha0.6700.0620.3400.0620.7020.0570.0440.040
Gowalla0.4340.1940.1940.1880.3980.1580.0880.058
Brightkite0.3690.2710.1710.2610.3430.2230.2380.083
Douban0.2860.3680.2630.3930.2650.3510.3440.166
Flickr0.5720.3050.3930.2200.6950.2850.2850.258