The spread of computer viruses over a reduced scale-free network

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 396, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-184

  Yang, Lu Xing ^a   Yang, Xiaofan ^a,b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Epidemic model of computer viruses; Global stability; Reduced scale free network; Viral equilibrium

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EPIDEMIC MODELING; GLOBAL STABILITY; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; MODEL PARAMETERS; NETWORK VIRUS; REDUCED SCALE; VIRUS SPREADING;

COMPUTER VIRUSES;

EID: 84890549801     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2013.11.026     Document Type: Article

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