Identifying Propagation Sources in Networks: State-of-the-Art and Comparative Studies

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 465-481

  Jiang, Jiaojiao ^a   Wen, Sheng ^a   Yu, Shui ^a   Xiang, Yang ^a   Zhou, Wanlei ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

centrality measures; Complex network; propagation; source identification

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TOPOLOGY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CENTRALITY MEASURES; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; NUMBER OF SOURCES; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PROPAGATION PROBABILITIES; SOURCE IDENTIFICATION; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 85014119108     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2615098     Document Type: Article

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