4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness

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Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1577222.1577255,
    author={Xiaohu Li and T. Paul Parker and Shouhuai Xu},
    title={Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems},
    proceedings={4th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and  Robustness},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={QSHINE},
    year={2007},
    month={8},
    keywords={Modeling Epidemic Spreading Heterogeneous Systems SIR Security},
    doi={10.1145/1577222.1577255}
}
  • Xiaohu Li
    T. Paul Parker
    Shouhuai Xu
    Year: 2007
    Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems
    QSHINE
    ACM
    DOI: 10.1145/1577222.1577255
Xiaohu Li1,*, T. Paul Parker1,*, Shouhuai Xu1,*
  • 1: Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio
*Contact email: xli@cs.utsa.edu, tparker@cs.utsa.edu, shxu@cs.utsa.edu

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.

Keywords
Modeling Epidemic Spreading Heterogeneous Systems SIR Security
Published
2007-08-17
Publisher
ACM
Modified
2010-05-16
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1577222.1577255
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