Citation

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Text

            Tamás-Zsolt Képes, Noémi Gaskó, János Tapolcai and Balázs Vass. A curated dataset of real and synthetic quasi-planar Internet backbone network topologies. Sci Data 13 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07944-3
        

Bibtex

            @article{kepes2026curated,
            author  = {Tam{\'a}s-Zsolt K{\'e}pes and No{\'e}mi Gask{\'o} and J{\'a}nos Tapolcai and Bal{\'a}zs Vass},
            title   = {{A curated dataset of real and synthetic quasi-planar Internet backbone network topologies}},
            journal = {Scientific Data},
            volume  = {13},
            month   = aug,
            year    = {2026},
            doi     = {10.1038/s41597-026-07944-3},
            url     = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-026-07944-3}
            }
        

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