Internet epidemiology: Healthy, susceptible, infected, quarantined, and recovered

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 216-238

  Kondakci, Suleyman ^a   Dincer, Cemali ^a  

^a IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Internet epidemiology; Queueing; Recovery modeling; Simulation; Stochastic modeling; Worm propagation modeling

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RECOVERY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PROPAGATION PATTERN; QUEUEING; RECOVERY EFFICIENCY; RECOVERY MODEL; RECURRENT EPIDEMICS; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; WORM PROPAGATION MODELS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79251590254     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.287     Document Type: Article

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