Modeling of malware diffusion with mobile devices in intermittently connected networks

In this paper, we introduce an epidemic model of malware with mobile devices in intermittently connected networks. In recent years, malware that infects mobile devices such as smartphones has emerged. Furthermore, attacks exploiting Bluetooth connections of smartphones have become serious issues. Based on these facts, in this paper, we aim to reveal the infection dynamics of new malware propagating on mobile devices in intermittently connected networks, with the epidemic model. The epidemic model represents the dynamics of malware diffusion with ordinary differential equations, considering node mobility. Through numerical calculations, we show that our proposed epidemic model well approximates results obtained from simulation experiments.