Epidemic spreading in a variety of scale free networks

被引:57
作者
Volchenkov, D [1 ]
Volchenkova, L [1 ]
Blanchard, P [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bielefeld, BiBoS, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW E | 2002年 / 66卷 / 04期
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevE.66.046137
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
We have shown that the epidemic spreading in scale-free networks is very sensitive to the statistics of degree distribution characterized by the index gamma, the effective spreading rate lambda, the social strategy used by individuals to choose a partner, and the policy of administrating a cure to an infected node. Depending on the interplay of these four factors, the stationary fractions of infected population F-gamma as well as the epidemic threshold properties can be essentially different. We have given an example of the evolutionary scale-free network which is disposed to the spreading and the persistence of infections at any spreading rate lambda>0 for any gamma. Probably, it is impossible to obtain a simple immunization program that can be simultaneously effective for all types of scale-free networks. We have also studied the dynamical solutions for the evolution equation governed by the epidemic spreading in scale-free networks and found that for the case of vanishingly small cure rate delta<<1 the initial configuration of infected nodes would feature the solution for very long times.
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