The characteristic path length (CP) measures the mean path length in the network, and it is computed using the following Equation [6,7]. (8)CP=1n∑i∈NLi=1n(n−1)∑i∈N∑j∈N,i≠jdij where Li is the average path length between node i and all other nodes, and dij is the distance between node i and node j in the network.
