Towards an analytic model of epidemic spreading in heterogeneous systems

Xiaohu Li, T. Paul Parker, Shouhuai Xu

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Abstract

Mathematical models have been utilized to help understand the epidemic spreading of malicious codes (e.g., computer virus and worms). However, existing such models are either adapted from the ones developed to capture the epidemic spreading of biologically infectious diseases in homogeneous systems, or suitable only for a very specific class of heterogeneous systems. In this paper we present an attempt at building an analytic model of epidemic spreading of malicious codes in arbitrary heterogeneous systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication4th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness and Workshops, QSHINE '07
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event4th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness and Workshops, QSHINE '07 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: 14 Aug 200917 Aug 2009

Publication series

Name4th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness and Workshops, QSHINE '07

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness and Workshops, QSHINE '07
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period14/08/0917/08/09

Keywords

  • Epidemic spreading
  • Heterogeneous systems
  • Modeling
  • SIR

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