Can I simulate susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model using NS-3? I'm aiming to model malware flow using SIS and trying to simulate using NS-3.
I'm a newbie to networks, and have been searching for this since hours, going through tens of research papers but can't find anything similar.
SIS implies some sort of discovery mechanism to spread the infection of a network. These discovery mechanisms typically use exploits in network capable daemons. So, to simulate SIS, you want a simulator that works at the application level of the network stack.
ns-3 has some application-level capabilities, but it's mostly intended to be used to simulate the network stack below the application level. The application-level capabilities that ns-3 does have are limited to traffic generation. Discovering the presence of a service on a Node, let alone a compromised version of a daemon, is not supported.
So, it seems like you'll need to find another simulator. I'm not sure what your options are, but depending on how complex of a simulation you want, you could just roll your own by representing the network as a graph, and infecting a susceptible node with probability p.