Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems

Xiaohu Li; T. Paul Parker; Shouhuai Xu

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

Research Article

Towards an Analytic Model of Epidemic Spreading in Heterogeneous Systems

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    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: 17th Aug 2007
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 16th May 2010

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1577222.1577255