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The epidemic cost of interconnected networks

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  • Bin Ye

    (School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China;
    Collaborative Innovation Center of Intelligent Mining Equipment, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China)

  • Kang-Wei Zuo

    (School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China)

  • Jia-Jia Jia

    (School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China)

  • Xiao-Ping Ma

    (School of Information and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, P. R. China)

Abstract

We study the effect of networks interconnection on the epidemic cost of them. When an epidemic will eventually die out, we find that the total cost of the epidemic over the interconnected network is approximate to the sum of the total epidemic cost of the two sub-networks. We also prove that the interconnection behavior can reduce epidemic threshold. Thus network interconnecting makes an epidemic more easily to occur, while keeping the total cost of the epidemic almost unchanged.

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  • Bin Ye & Kang-Wei Zuo & Jia-Jia Jia & Xiao-Ping Ma, 2015. "The epidemic cost of interconnected networks," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 26(11), pages 1-14.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:26:y:2015:i:11:n:s0129183115501296
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183115501296
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