The epidemic cost of interconnected networks

Bin Ye (), Kang-Wei Zuo (), Jia-Jia Jia () and Xiao-Ping Ma ()
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Bin Ye: School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China;
Kang-Wei Zuo: School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China
Jia-Jia Jia: School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China
Xiao-Ping Ma: School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2015, vol. 26, issue 11, 1-14

Abstract: We study the effect of networks interconnection on the epidemic cost of them. When an epidemic will eventually die out, we find that the total cost of the epidemic over the interconnected network is approximate to the sum of the total epidemic cost of the two sub-networks. We also prove that the interconnection behavior can reduce epidemic threshold. Thus network interconnecting makes an epidemic more easily to occur, while keeping the total cost of the epidemic almost unchanged.

Keywords: Interconnected network; epidemic; cost; 89.75.-k; 02.10.Ox (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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