“…Let us therefore first consider separately the branching structure. In practice the evolution of the number of nodes (i.e., the amount of messages disseminated in the network) is governed by continuous state branching processes (CSBPs), introduced by Jiřina [1958] and studied by various researchers during the past decades [see for example Lamperti, 1967a,b, Feller, 1951, Grey, 1974, Silverstein, 1969, Bingham, 1976, Le Gall, 1999, Li, 2006, Kale and Deshmukh, 1992, Li, 2009, Caballero et al, 2009, Li, 2012a, Kashikar and Deshmukh, 2012. In order to understand what a CSBP is, we start by describing a related discrete time and discrete state space model: the so-called Galton-Watson process.…”