Thresholds for virus spread on networks

@inproceedings{Draief2006ThresholdsFV,
  title={Thresholds for virus spread on networks},
  author={M. Draief and Ayalvadi J. Ganesh and Laurent Massouli{\'e}},
  booktitle={valuetools '06},
  year={2006}
}
We study how the spread of computer viruses, worms, and other self-replicating malware is affected by the logical topology of the network over which they propagate. We consider a model in which each host can be in one of 3 possible states - susceptible, infected or removed (cured, and no longer susceptible to infection). We characterise how the size of the population that eventually becomes infected depends on the network topology. Specifically, we show that if the ratio of cure to infection… 
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