Efficiency and reliability of epidemic data dissemination in complex networks

Preprint

10 November 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/0311212

Abstract

We study the dynamics of epidemic spreading processes aimed at spontaneous dissemination of information updates in populations with complex connectivity patterns. The influence of the topological structure of the network in these processes is studied by analyzing the behavior of several global parameters such as reliability, efficiency and load. Large scale numerical simulations of update spreading processes show that while networks with homogeneous connectivity patterns permit a higher reliability, scale-free topologies allow for a better efficiency.

Keywords

STRUCTURE OF THE NETWORK
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
CONNECTIVITY PATTERNS
SPREADING PROCESSES
DATA DISSEMINATION
EPIDEMIC DATA
DISSEMINATION
RELIABILITY
EFFICIENCY

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Version 1, 2003-11-10, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review E, 69 (5), 055101.

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