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. 2019 Dec 20;14(12):e0226594. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226594

Table 1. The definition of network properties.

Property Description
Nh Total number of hosts
J(t) Number of infectious hosts at time t
β The infection rate of botnet propagation in each time interval
N The population of the current botnet
M The capacity of the peer list of a bot
μout-degree The average number of the out-degree of a bot
D The diameter of the simulated botnet (the maximum path length from a regular bot to a sensor bot)
μpathlen The average path length from a regular bot to a sensor bot
pinit Initial proportion of sensor bots
psensor The current proportion of sensor bots
Nsensor The current number of sensor bots
TTLup The hop limit of a broadcast message
Speer The number of peers that a peer list currently contains
μpeer The average number of peers that a peer list currently contains
Ssensor The number of sensor bots that a peer list currently contains
μsensor The average number of sensor bots that a peer list currently contains