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Wireless Epidemic Spread in Dynamic Human Networks Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication

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Bio-Inspired Computing and Communication, volume 5151 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, chapter 11, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2008)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-92191-2\_11

Abstract

The emergence of Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) has culminated in a new generation of wireless networking. New communication paradigms, which use dynamic interconnectedness as people encounter each other opportunistically, lead towards a world where digital traffic flows more easily. We focus on human-to-human communication in environments that exhibit the characteristics of social networks. This paper describes our study of information flow during epidemic spread in such dynamic human networks, a topic which shares many issues with network-based epidemiology. We explore hub nodes extracted from real world connectivity traces and show their influence on the epidemic to demonstrate the characteristics of information propagation.

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