Acta Metallurgica Sinica(English letters) ›› 2009, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (1): 27-31.doi: 10.1016/S1005-8885(08)60173-9

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Spreading behavior of SIS model with non-uniform transmission on scale-free networks

XIA Cheng-yi, LIU Zhong-xin, CHEN Zeng-qiang, YUAN Zhu-zhi   

  1. Department of Automation, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-02-26
  • Contact: XIA Cheng-yi

Abstract:

The non-uniform transmission and network topological structure are combined to investigate the spreading behavior of susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) epidemic model. Based on the mean-field theory, the analytical and numerical results indicate that the epidemic threshold is correlated with the topology of underlying networks, as well as the disease transmission mechanism. These discoveries can greatly help us to further understand the virus propagation on communication networks.

Key words:

spreading behavior;SIS;non-uniform transmission;scale-free networks;virus propagation