Optimal Control of Joint Multi-Virus Infection and Information Spreading

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Authors: Vladislav Taynitskiy, Elena Gubar, D. N. Fedyanin, Ilya Petrov, Quanyan Zhu 

Publication date: 19 July 2020

Abstract: Nowadays, epidemic models provide an appropriate tool for describing the propagation of biological viruses in human or animal populations, or rumours and other kinds of information in social networks and malware in both computer and ad hoc networks. Commonly, there are exist multiple types of malware infecting a network of computing devices, or different messages can spread over the social network. Information spreading and virus propagation are interdependent processes. To capture such independencies, we integrate two epidemic models into one holistic framework, known as the modified Susceptible-Warned-Infected-Recovered-Susceptible (SWIRS) model. The first epidemic model describes the information spreading regarding the risk of malware attacks and possible preventive procedures. The second one describes the propagation of multiple viruses over the network of devices. To minimize the impact of the virus spreading and improve the protection of the networks, we consider an optimal control problem with two types of control strategies: information spreading among healthy nodes and the treatment of infected nodes. We obtain the structure of optimal control strategies and study the condition of epidemic outbreaks. The main results are extended to the case of the network of two connected clusters. Numerical examples are used to corroborate the theoretical findings.

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