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Journal Article
Understanding the Spreading Patterns of Mobile Phone Viruses
2009
Overview
We modeled the mobility of mobile phone users in order to study the fundamental spreading patterns that characterize a mobile virus outbreak. We find that although Bluetooth viruses can reach all susceptible handsets with time, they spread slowly because of human mobility, offering ample opportunities to deploy antiviral software. In contrast, viruses using multimedia messaging services could infect all users in hours, but currently a phase transition on the underlying call graph limits them to only a small fraction of the susceptible users. These results explain the lack of a major mobile virus breakout so far and predict that once a mobile operating system's market share reaches the phase transition point, viruses will pose a serious threat to mobile communications.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subject
/ Billing
/ Equipments and installations
/ Exact sciences and technology
/ Humans
/ Mobile radiocommunication systems
/ Services and terminals of telecommunications
/ Systems, networks and services of telecommunications
/ Telecommunications and information theory
/ Transmission and modulation (techniques and equipments)
/ Viruses
