Security News > 2020 > March > Researchers speed the death of ‘bad’ data in the race against good
Researchers say yes: Good data can beat bad data in the race to spread. In a paper published on Friday, researchers from North Carolina State University and the Army Research Office have demonstrated a new model of how competing pieces of information spread in online social networks and the Internet of Things.
Ultimately, our work can be used to determine the best places to inject new data into a network so that the old data can be eliminated faster.
According to the findings, a network's size matters when it comes to the speed of good data displacing bad data.
Bigger isn't always better, though: rather, the speed at which good data travels is primarily affected by network structure.
The researchers created an algorithm that they used to assess where, exactly, to inject new data so that it can spread as fast as possible.