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In the past few years, the study of complex networks has attracted the attention of researchers. Many real networks, ranging from technological networks such as the Internet to biological networks, have been considered as special types of complex networks. Through application of the network science, important structural properties of such networks have been analyzed and the mechanisms that form such characteristics have been introduced. In this paper, we address the structural characteristics of a technological network called Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Recent studies reveal that the communication graph of VANETs has some interesting characteristics including: the Gaussian degree...