I tried to use Tikz to draw large graphs with specific toologies and I am running into some problems. Since not all nodes can be represented explicitly, I am forced to use an ellipsis. I tried to define this ellipsis as a node, but the dots appear horizontally and not as shown in figure, i.e., it would be great if the ellipsis are three adjacent points on the circumference of the circle where other nodes rest.
The same problem arises even when I have a complete graph. Can someone help me out with this? Thanks!
Code so far:
\begin{tikzpicture}[->,>=stealth', shorten>=1pt, auto, node distance=2.8cm, semithick]
\tikzstyle{peer}=[draw,circle,violet,bottom color=\lav, top color= white, text=violet, minimum width=8pt]
\tikzstyle{superpeer}=[draw, circle, burntorange, left color=\oran, text=violet, minimum width=25pt]
\node[superpeer] (A) {$0$};
\node[peer] (B) at ($ (A) + (20:4) $) {$1$};
\node[peer] (C) at ($ (A) + (-52:4) $) {$2$};
\node[peer] (D) at ($ (A) + (-124:4) $){$3$};
\node[draw=none] (F) at ($ (A) + (-176:4) $){$\cdots$};
\node[peer] (E) at ($ (A) + (92:4) $) {$N$};
\path (A) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[]{$\lambda_{01}, \mu_{01}$} (B);
\path (A) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[] {$\lambda_{02}, \mu_{02}$} (C);
\path (A) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[] {$\lambda_{03}, \mu_{03}$}(D);
\path (A) edge [color=blue, sloped, below] node[] {$\lambda_{0N}, \mu_{0N}$} (E);
\path (B) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[] {$\lambda_{10}, \mu_{10}$}(A);
\path (C) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[] {$\lambda_{20}, \mu_{20}$}(A);
\path (D) edge [color=blue, sloped] node[] {$\lambda_{30}, \mu_{30}$}(A);
\path (E) edge [color=blue, sloped, above] node[] {$\lambda_{N0}, \mu_{N0}$}(A);
\end{tikzpicture}
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