ShareTrace: Contact Tracing with the Actor Model
Ryan Tatton, Erman Ayday, Youngjin Yoo, Anisa Halimi

TL;DR
ShareTrace leverages the actor model to enhance contact tracing by efficiently analyzing direct and indirect contacts, improving accuracy and scalability in estimating disease spread risk.
Contribution
This work introduces a scalable actor model-based formulation of ShareTrace and a novel message reachability extension for more accurate risk estimation in contact networks.
Findings
Efficient and scalable contact tracing using actor model.
Message reachability accurately estimates user risk.
Optimal parameters improve accuracy and efficiency.
Abstract
Proximity-based contact tracing relies on mobile-device interaction to estimate the spread of disease. ShareTrace is one such approach that improves the efficacy of tracking disease spread by considering direct and indirect forms of contact. In this work, we utilize the actor model to provide an efficient and scalable formulation of ShareTrace with asynchronous, concurrent message passing on a temporal contact network. We also introduce message reachability, an extension of temporal reachability that accounts for network topology and message-passing semantics. Our evaluation on both synthetic and real-world contact networks indicates that correct parameter values optimize for algorithmic accuracy and efficiency. In addition, we demonstrate that message reachability can accurately estimate the risk a user poses to their contacts.
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Taxonomy
TopicsHuman Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks · Complex Network Analysis Techniques
