Today I read a paper titled “Random Information Spread in Networks”
The abstract is:
Let G=(V,E) be an undirected loopless graph with possible parallel edges and s and t be two vertices of G.
Assume that vertex s is labelled at the initial time step and that every labelled vertex copies its labelling to neighbouring vertices along edges with one labelled endpoint independently with probability p in one time step.
In this paper, we establish the equivalence between the expected s-t first arrival time of the above spread process and the notion of the stochastic shortest s-t path.
Moreover, we give a short discussion of analytical results on special graphs including the complete graph and s-t series-parallel graphs.
Finally, we propose some lower bounds for the expected s-t first arrival time.