Fig. 2.
Characteristics of the basic explored model networks. (a) A regular 2D square lattice, is the most degree-homogeneous network. (b) An Erdős–Rényi (ER) network, has a Poisson degree distribution and its degree heterogeneity is determined by the average degree . (c) A scale–free (SF) network, has a power-law degree distribution, yielding large degree heterogeneity. The degree distributions are shown for (d) the 2D square lattice, (e) the ER network and (f) the SF network.