Identifying multiple infection sources in a network

• Main Authors: Luo, Wuqiong, Tay, Wee Peng
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/97366; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/13163
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Estimating which nodes are the infection sources that introduce a virus or rumor into a network, or the locations of pollutant sources, plays a critical role in limiting the potential damage to the network through timely quarantine of the sources. In this paper, we derive estimators for the infectio...