A mathematical model for malware spread on WSNs with population dynamics

J.D. Hernández Guillén and A. Martín del Rey

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020, vol. 545, issue C

Abstract: The aim of this work is to describe and analyze a new theoretical model to simulate the spread of malicious code on wireless sensor networks. Specifically, this is a SCIRS model such that population dynamics, and vaccination and reinfection processes are considered. The local and global stability of the equilibrium points are studied and the most important security countermeasures are explicitly shown by means of the analysis of the epidemic threshold.

Keywords: Malicious code spread; Local and global stability; Security countermeasures; Wireless sensor networks; Basic reproductive number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.123609

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