Detecting sources of computer viruses in networks: Theory and experiment

We provide a systematic study of the problem of finding the source of a computer virus in a network. We model virus spreading in a network with a variant of the popular SIR model and then construct an estimator for the virus source. This estimator is based upon a novel combinatorial quantity wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shah, Devavrat, Zaman, Tauhid R.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Computing Machinery 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/63150
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-3259
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-9343