Malware Diffusion Models for Modern Complex Networks

3.3. Other Epidemics Models

The previously presented epidemics models have been mainly developed for wired networks and especially worms and viruses spreading over the Internet and exploiting elements from TCP/IP, e.g. port scanning and email attachment attacks [233]. However, epidemics models have also emerged in the literature for other types of networks, which can be physical (actual) networks of computers, e.g. local area proprietary networks, or utility grids (e.g. water pipes or electricity poles), overlay/application networks, e.g. user network of online social networks, or any other type of network representation at any intermediate protocol layer.

In the following, we present concisely some of these models for the respective network types ...