Epidemic spreading behavior with time delay on local-world evolving networks

An improved susceptible-infected-susceptible(SIS)model in the local-world evolving network model is presented to study the epidemic spreading behavior with time delay,which is added into the infected phase.The local-world evolving model displays a transition from the exponential network to the scale-free network with respect to the degree distribution.Two typical delay regimes,i.e.,uniform and degree-dependent delays are incorporated into the SIS epidemic model to investigate the epidemic infection processes in the local-world net-work model.The results indicate that the infection delay will promote the epidemic outbreaks,increase the prevalence and reduce the critical threshold of epidemic spreading.It is also found that local-world size M will considerably influence the epidemic spreading behavior with time delay in the local-world network through large-scale numerical simulations.Simulation results are also of relevance to fight epidemic outbreaks.