Epidemic spreading with time delay in complex networks
Physics and Society
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We present a modified \emph{susceptible-infected-susceptible} (SIS) model on complex networks, small-world and scale-free, to study epidemic spreading with the effect of time delay which is introduced to the infected phase. Considering the topology of the network, both uniform and degree-dependent delays are studied during the contagion process. We find that the existence of time delay will enhance both outbreaks and prevalence of infectious diseases in the network.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0508168,
title = {Epidemic spreading with time delay in complex networks},
author = {Xin-Jian Xu and Hai-Ou Peng and Xiao-Mei Wang and Ying-Hai Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0508168},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures. to appear in Physica A