Rumors in a Network: Who's the Culprit?

We provide a systematic study of the problem of finding the source of a rumor in a network. We model rumor spreading in a network with the popular susceptible-infected (SI) model and then construct an estimator for the rumor source. This estimator is based upon a novel topological quantity which we...

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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: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/88122
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0737-3259
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-9343