We investigate the effect of nonuniform transmission on the critical threshold of susceptible–infected–recovered–susceptible (SIRS) epidemic model on scale-free networks. Based on the mean-field theory, it is observed that the epidemic threshold is not only correlated with the topology of underlying networks, but also with the disease transmission mechanism (e.g., nonuniform transmission). The current findings will significantly help us to further understand the real epidemics taking place on social and technological networks.
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