Malware Diffusion Models for Modern Complex Networks

5.4. Regular Networks

In this section, we consider regular networks, i.e. networks where the node degree distribution is either a constant value for all nodes, or a very restricted subset of specific constant values (e.g. three distinct values as in finite grids studied in Section  5.4.2) [23]. In other words, all nodes have the same degree, or there exist a few subsets of nodes, where in each subset, the nodes have the same node degree. Regular networks can be of many types, i.e. chains, rings, grids, and in general lattices in higher-dimension spaces, some examples of which are shown in Fig. 5.2. In the following, we present an exhaustive analysis of the chain network case, and then extend it to regular lattices. Extensions for higher dimensional ...