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 which w...

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Main Authors: Shah, Devavrat (Contributor), Zaman, Tauhid R. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2011-05-31T19:10:41Z.
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