The behavior of epidemics under bounded susceptibility
Abstract
We investigate the sensitivity of epidemic behavior to a bounded susceptibility constraint -- susceptible nodes are infected by their neighbors via the regular SI/SIS dynamics, but subject to a cap on the infection rate . Such a constraint is motivated by modern social networks, wherein messages are broadcast to all neighbors, but attention spans are limited. Bounded susceptibility also arises in distributed computing applications with download bandwidth constraints, and in human epidemics under quarantine policies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Jun 16, 2014
- Source ID
- 10.1145/2637364.2591977
Entities
People
- Sanjay Shakkottai
- Siddhartha Banerjee
- Subhashini Krishnasamy
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Division of Computer and Network Systems
- Division of Information and Intelligent Systems
- Stanford University