Traffic-driven epidemic spreading in finite-size scale-free networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 16897-16902

  Meloni, Sandro ^a   Arenas, Alex ^b,c   Moreno, Yamir ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Contagion dynamics; Traffic flow

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLOW KINETICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SECURITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNET; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 70350131725     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0907121106     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Boccaletti S, Latora V, Moreno Y, Chávez M, Hwang DU (2006) Complex networks: Structure and dynamics. Phys Rep 424:175-308.
2. Dorogovtsev SN, Goltsev AV, Mendes JFF (2008) Critical phenomena in complex networks. Rev Mod Phys 80:1275-1336.
3. Barabási AL, Albert R (1999) Emergence of scaling in random networks. Science 286:509-512.
4. Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2001) Epidemic spreading in scale-free networks. Phys Rev Lett 86:3200-3203.
5. LLoyd AL, May RM (2001) How viruses spread among computers and people. Science 292:1316-1317.
6. Moreno Y, Pastor-Satorras, R. Vespignani A (2002) Epidemic outbreaks in complex heterogeneous networks. Eur Phys J B 26:521-529. (Pubitemid 135698247)
7. Newman MEJ (2002) The spread of epidemic disease on networks. Phys Rev E 66:016128.
8. Barthélemy M, Barrat A, Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2004) Velocity and hierarchical spread of epidemic outbreaks in scale-free networks. Phys Rev Lett 92:178701.
9. Gardeñes JG, Latora V, Moreno Y, Profumo E (2008) Spreading of sexually transmitted diseases in heterosexual populations. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105:1399-1404. (Pubitemid 351346525)
10. Amaral LAN, Scala A, Barthélemy M, Stanley HE (2000) Classes of small-world networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97:11149-11152.
11. Newman MEJ, Forrest S, Balthrop J (2002) Email networks and the spread of computer viruses. Phys Rev E 66:035101.
12. Han JDJ, et al. (2004) Evidence for dynamically organized modularity in the yeast protein-protein interaction network. Nature 430:88-93. (Pubitemid 38915230)
13. Liljeros F, Edling CR, Amaral LAN, Stanley HE, Aberg Y (2001) The web of human sexual contacts. Nature 411:907-908.
14. Eubank S, et al. (2004) Modelling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks. Nature 429:180184. (Pubitemid 38656193)
15. Colizza V, Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2007) Reaction-diffusion processes and metapopulation models in heterogeneous networks. Nat Phys 3:276-282.
16. Colizza V, Vespignani A (2008) Epidemic modeling in metapopulation systems with heterogeneous coupling pattern: Theory and simulations. J Theor Biol 251:450-467.
17. Colizza V, Barrat A, Barthélemy M, Vespignani A (2007) Predictability and epidemic pathways in global outbreaks of infectious diseases: the SARS case study. BMC Med 5:34. (Pubitemid 351167791)
18. Murray JD (2007) Mathematical Biology (Springer-Verlag, Berlin), 3rd Ed.
19. Serrano MA, Krioukov D, Boguná, M (2008) Self-similarity of complex networks and hidden metric spaces. Phys Rev Lett 100:078701.
20. Boguná M, Krioukov D, Claffy KC (2009) Navigability of complex networks. Nat Phys 5:74-80.
21. Boguná M, Krioukov D (2009) Navigating ultrasmall worlds in ultrashort time. Phys Rev Lett 102:058701.
22. Guimerà R, Díaz-Guilera A, Vega-Redondo F, Cabrales A, Arenas A (2002) Optimal network topologies for local search with congestion. Phys Rev Lett 89:248701.
23. Noh JD, Rieger H (2004) Random walks on complex networks. Phys Rev Lett 92:118701.
24. Meloni S, Gardeñes JG, Latora V, Moreno Y (2008) Scaling breakdown in flow fluctuations on complex networks. Phys Rev Lett 100:208701. (Pubitemid 351718000)
25. Zhao L, Lai YC, Park K, Ye N (2005) Onset of traffic congestion in complex networks. Phys Rev E 71:026125.
26. Sreenivasan S, Cohen R, Lopez E, Toroczkai Z, Stanley HE (2007) Structural bottlenecks for communication in networks. Phys Rev E 75:036105.
27. Rosato V, Meloni S, Issacharoff L, Tiriticco F (2008) Is the topology of the internet network really fit to its function? Physica A 387:1689-1704.
28. Pastor-Satorras R, Vespignani A (2004) Evolution and Structure of the Internet: A Statistical Physics Approach. (Cambridge Univ Press, Cambridge, MA).
29. Guimerà R, Mossa S, Turtschi A, Amaral LAN (2005) The worldwide air transportation network: Anomalous centrality, community structure, and cities' global roles. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102:7794-7799. (Pubitemid 40781017)
30. Grais RF, Ellis JH, Kress A, Glass GE (2004) Modeling the spread of annual influenza epidemics in the U.S.: The potential role of air travel. Health Care Manage Sci 7:127-134.