Print Email Facebook Twitter Domination-time dynamics in susceptible-infected-susceptible virus competition on networks Title Domination-time dynamics in susceptible-infected-susceptible virus competition on networks Author Van de Bovenkamp, R. Kuipers, F.A. Van Mieghem, P.F.A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Network Architectures & Services (NAS) Date 2014-04-29 Abstract When two viruses compete for healthy nodes in a simple network and both spreading rates are above the epidemic threshold, only one virus will survive. However, if we prevent the viruses from dying out, rich dynamics emerge. When both viruses are identical, one virus always dominates the other, but the dominating and dominated virus alternate. We show in the complete graph that the domination time depends on the total number of infected nodes at the beginning of the domination period and, moreover, that the distribution of the domination time decays exponentially yet slowly. When the viruses differ moderately in strength and/or speed the weaker and/or slower virus can still dominate the other but for a short time. Interestingly, depending on the number of infected nodes at the start of a domination period, being quicker can be a disadvantage. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:907f6676-bd0d-4395-9786-6c50072879ac DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.042818 Publisher American Physical Society ISSN 1539-3755 Source http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.042818 Source Physical Review E, 89, 2014 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 American Physical Society Files PDF VandeBovenkamp_2014.pdf 1.33 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:907f6676-bd0d-4395-9786-6c50072879ac/datastream/OBJ/view