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Understanding the dynamics of computer virus (malware, worm) in cyberspace is an important problem that has attracted a fair amount of attention. Early investigations for this purpose adapted biological epidemic models, and thus inherited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Shouhuai Xu , Wenlian Lu , Li Xu

In the ad-hoc radio network model, nodes communicate with their neighbors via radio signals, without knowing the topology of the graph. We study the information gathering problem, where each node has a piece of information called a rumor,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Marek Chrobak , Kevin Costello , Leszek Gasieniec

In this paper, we consider a random network such that there could be a link between any two nodes in the network with a certain probability (plink). Diffusion is the phenomenon of spreading information throughout the network, starting from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-23 Natarajan Meghanathan

In this paper, we study random gossip processes in communication models that describe the peer-to-peer networking functionality included in standard smartphone operating systems. Random gossip processes spread information through the basic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Calvin Newport , Alex Weaver

Broadcasting and gossiping are fundamental communication tasks in networks. In broadcasting,one node of a network has a message that must be learned by all other nodes. In gossiping, every node has a (possibly different) message, and all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Kokouvi Hounkanli , Andrzej Pelc

In this paper we present various distributed algorithms for LP-type problems in the well-known gossip model. LP-type problems include many important classes of problems such as (integer) linear programming, geometric problems like smallest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Kristian Hinnenthal , Christian Scheideler , Martijn Struijs

Junior, Machado and Zuluaga (2011) studied a model to understand the spread of a rumour. Their model consists of individuals situated at the integer points of the line $\N$. An individual at the origin $0$ starts a rumour and passes it to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Farkhondeh Alsadat Sajadi , Rahul Roy

Social networks allow rapid spread of ideas and innovations while the negative information can also propagate widely. When the cascades with different opinions reaching the same user, the cascade arriving first is the most likely to be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Guangmo Tong , Weili Wu , Ling Guo , Deying Li , Cong Liu , Bin Liu , Ding-Zhu Du

The truth is significantly hampered by massive rumors that spread along with breaking news or popular topics. Since there is sufficient corpus gathered from the same domain for model training, existing rumor detection algorithms show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Hongzhan Lin , Jing Ma , Ruichao Yang , Zhiwei Yang , Mingfei Cheng

In this paper, we study an asynchronous randomized gossip algorithm under unreliable communication. At each instance, two nodes are selected to meet with a given probability. When nodes meet, two unreliable communication links are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-28 Guodong Shi , Mikael Johansson , Karl Henrik Johansson

A gossip protocol is a procedure for spreading secrets among a group of agents, using a connection graph. The goal is for all agents to get to know all secrets, in which case we call the execution of the protocol successful. We consider…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Hans van Ditmarsch , Jan van Eijck , Pere Pardo , Rahim Ramezanian , François Schwarzentruber

We consider information dissemination in a large $n$-user wireless network in which $k$ users wish to share a unique message with all other users. Each of the $n$ users only has knowledge of its own contents and state information; this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Yuxin Chen , Sanjay Shakkottai , Jeffrey G. Andrews

We revisit the classic problem of spreading a piece of information in a group of $n$ fully connected processors. By suitably adding a small dose of randomness to the protocol of Gasienic and Pelc (1996), we derive for the first time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Benjamin Doerr , Carola Doerr , Shay Moran , Shlomo Moran

This paper analyzes the adoption of unstructured P2P overlay networks to build publish-subscribe systems. We consider a very simple distributed communication protocol, based on gossip and on the local knowledge each node has about…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-06-21 Stefano Ferretti

Many of today's most pressing issues require a more robust understanding of how information spreads in populations. Current models of information spread can be thought of as falling into one of two varieties: epidemiologically-inspired…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-03 Sagar Kumar , Moritz Laber , Maimuna S. Majumder , Brooke Foucault Welles

We introduce a general stochastic model for the spread of rumours, and derive mean-field equations that describe the dynamics of the model on complex social networks (in particular those mediated by the Internet). We use analytical and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Maziar Nekovee , Y. Moreno , G. Bianconi , M. Marsili

In modern data center networks, thousands of hosts contend for shared link capacity; the scale of these systems makes centralized scheduling impractical. This article models such scheduling as a bipartite matching problem under…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Moonmoon Mohanty , Gautham Bolar , Preetam Patil , Ayalvadi Ganesh , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Parimal Parag

We study distributed methods for online prediction and stochastic optimization. Our approach is iterative: in each round nodes first perform local computations and then communicate in order to aggregate information and synchronize their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-06 Konstantinos I. Tsianos , Michael G. Rabbat

Promoting information spreading is a booming research topic in network science community. However, the exiting studies about promoting information spreading seldom took into account the human memory, which plays an important role in the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-28 Lei Gao , Wei Wang , Panpan Shu , Hui Gao , Lidia A. Braunstein

We consider a network consisting of $n$ nodes connected in a ring formation and a source that generates updates according to a renewal process and disseminates them to the ring network according to a Poisson process. The nodes in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Arunabh Srivastava , Sennur Ulukus