Epidemics in Interconnected Small-World Networks

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120701
• Publication Date: 2015-03-23T15:01:15Z
• Authors: Meng Liu; Daqing Li; Pengju Qin; Chaoran Liu; Huijuan Wang; Feilong Wang
• Keywords: Small-world network; Infection rate; Epidemic model

Networks can be used to describe the interconnections among individuals, which play an important role in spread of disease. Although small-world effect has been found have a significant impact on epidemics single networks, interconnected networks rarely considered. Here, we study susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model epidemic spreading system comprising two networks. We find that threshold such decreases when rewiring probability component increases. When infection rate is low, affects global steady-state density, whereas high, density insensitive probability. Moreover, are at different velocities depend