Hop limited epidemic-like information spreading in mobile social networks with selfish nodes

作     者：Wu, Yahui Deng, Su Huang, Hongbin 

作者机构：Natl Univ Def Technol Sci & Technol Informat Syst Engn Lab Changsha 410073 Hunan Peoples R China 

出 版 物：《JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL》 (物理学学报A辑：数理与理论物理学)

年 卷 期：2013年第46卷第26期

页      面：265101-265101页

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学科分类：07[理学] 0702[理学-物理学] 

主　　题：SOCIAL networks MOBILE communication systems EPIDEMICS COMPUTER simulation COMPUTER algorithms 

摘      要：Similar to epidemics, information can be transmitted directly among users in mobile social networks. Different from epidemics, we can control the spreading process by adjusting the corresponding parameters (e.g., hop count) directly. This paper proposes a theoretical model to evaluate the performance of an epidemic-like spreading algorithm, in which the maximal hop count of the information is limited. In addition, our model can be used to evaluate the impact of users selfish behavior. Simulations show the accuracy of our theoretical model. Numerical results show that the information hop count can have an important impact. In addition, the impact of selfish behavior is related to the information hop count.