<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Many immunization strategies have been proposed to control the epidemic spreading which mainly focus on how to immunize the nodes. A novel and efficient strategy to control the traffic driven epidemic spreading in weighted networks is proposed in this paper. By immunizing the edges according to different weights, our control strategies cannot only reduce the epidemic spreading velocity and enhance the critical epidemic threshold, but also maintain the integrity of the weighted networks. Simulations show that the control strategy by immunizing edges according to the product of the strengths of two nodes of the edge proved to be more efficient.</p></abstract>

Many immunization strategies have been proposed to control the epidemic spreading which mainly focus on how to immunize the nodes. A novel and efficient strategy to control the traffic driven epidemic spreading in weighted networks is proposed in this paper. By immunizing the edges according to different weights, our control strategies cannot only reduce the epidemic spreading velocity and enhance the critical epidemic threshold, but also maintain the integrity of the weighted networks. Simulations show that the control strategy by immunizing edges according to the product of the strengths of two nodes of the edge proved to be more efficient.

Control of Traffic Driven Epidemics in Weighted Networks by Immunizing Edges

School of Computer Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China

Jiangsu Information Analysis Engineering Laboratory, Nanjing 211169, China

Cybernetics and Information Technologies

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Many immunization strategies have been proposed to control the epidemic spreading which mainly focus on how to immunize the nodes. A novel and efficient...

Control of Traffic Driven Epidemics in Weighted Networks by Immunizing Edges

Published Online: Jan 31, 2015

Page range: 56 - 65

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/cait-2014-0005

© 2015 Zinan Chang and Fei Shao

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.