Malicious Code Modeling and Analysis in Weighted Scale-Free Networks

0 Introduction Nowadays, malicious codes such as com- puter viruses, worms and so on are an important risk to the computational systems endangering either corporation systems of all sizes or personal computers used for simple applications as ac- cessing b…

Malicious code modeling and analysis in weighted scale-free networks

We study the detailed malicious code propagating process in scale-free networks with link weights that denotes traffic between two nodes. It is found that the propagating velocity reaches a peak rapidly then decays in a power-law form, which is different from the well-known result in unweighted network case. Simulation results show that the nodes with larger strength are preferential to be infected, but the hierarchical dynamics are not clearly found. The simulation results also show that larger dispersion of weight of networks leads to slower propagating, which indicates that malicious code propagates more quickly in unweighted scale-free networks than in weighted scale-free networks under the same condition. These results show that not only the topology of networks but also the link weights affect the malicious propagating process.