Betweenness Centrality in Dense Random Geometric Networks Alexander P. Giles Orestis Georgiou Carl P. Dettmann School of Mathematics Toshiba Telecommunications Research Laboratory School of Mathematics University of Bristol 32 Queen Square University of Bristol Bristol, UK, BS8 1TW Bristol, UK, BS1 4ND Bristol, UK, BS8 1TW
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Abstract—Random geometric networks are mathematical are routed in a multi-hop fashion between any two nodes that structures consisting of a set of nodes placed randomly within wish to communicate, allowing much larger, more flexible d a bounded set V ⊆ R mutually coupled with a probability de- networks (due to the lack of pre-established infrastructure or pendent on their Euclidean separation, and are the classic model used within the expanding field of ad-hoc wireless networks. In the need to be within range of a switch). Commercial ad hoc order to rank the importance of the network’s communicating networks are nowadays realised under Wi-Fi Direct standards, nodes, we consider the well established ‘betweenness’ centrality enabling device-to-device (D2D) offloading in LTE cellular measure (quantifying how often a node is on a shortest path of networks [5]. links between any pair of nodes), providing an analytic treatment This new diversity in machine betweenness needs to be of betweenness within a random graph model by deriving a closed form expression for the expected betweenness of a node understood, and moreover can be harnessed in at least three placed within a dense random geometric network formed inside separate ways: historically, in 2005 Gupta et al.