Paper Info
Title
Stability and Immunization Analysis of a Malware Spread Model Over Scale-Free Networks
Abstract
The spreading dynamics and control of infectious agents primarily depend on the connectivity properties of underlying networks. Here, we investigate the stability of a susceptible- infected-susceptible epidemic model incorporated with multiple infection stages and propagation vectors to mimic malware behavior over scale-free communication networks. In particular, we derive the basic reproductive ratio (R 0 ) and provide results for stability analysis at infection-free and infection-chronic equilibrium points. Based on R 0 , the effectiveness of four prevailing immunization strategies as countermeasures is studied and compared. The outperformance of proportional and targeted immunization is justified via numerical results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/LCOMM.2014.2361525
Communications Letters, IEEE
Keywords
Field
DocType
computer crime,invasive software,R0,connectivity properties,immunization analysis,immunization strategies,infection stages,infection-chronic equilibrium points,infection-free equilibrium points,infectious agents control,malware behavior,malware spread model,propagation vectors,proportional immunization,reproductive ratio,scale-free communication networks,spreading dynamics,stability analysis,susceptible- infected-susceptible epidemic model,targeted immunization,Malware modeling,basic reproductive ratio,epidemiology,immunization,scale-free network,stability analysis,stability analysis
Epidemic model,Telecommunications network,Numerical models,Computer security,Computer science,Computer network,Equilibrium point,Theoretical computer science,Scale-free network,Basic reproduction number,Malware
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
11
1089-7798
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aresh Dadlani19813.04
Muthukrishnan Senthil Kumar284.23
K. C. Kim356785.37
Khosrow Sohraby429337.14