paper

In-homogeneous Virus Spread in Networks

arXiv:1306.2588

Abstract

Our -intertwined model (now called NIMFA) for virus spread in any network with nodes is extended to a full heterogeneous setting. The metastable steady-state nodal infection probabilities are specified in terms of a generalized Laplacian, that possesses analogous properties as the classical Laplacian in graph theory. The critical threshold that separates global network infection from global network health is characterized via an dimensional vector that makes the largest eigenvalue of a modified adjacency matrix equal to unity. Finally, the steady-state infection probability of node is convex in the own curing rate , but concave in the curing rates of the other nodes in the network.

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