IEEE Access (Jan 2019)

Large-Scale Dynamic Social Network Directed Graph K-In&Out-Degree Anonymity Algorithm for Protecting Community Structure

  • Xiaolin Zhang,
  • Jiao Liu,
  • Jian Li,
  • Lixin Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2933151
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7
pp. 108371 – 108383

Abstract

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Social network data publishing is dynamic, and attackers can perform association attacks based on social network directed graph data at different times. The existing social network privacy protection technology has low performance in dealing with large-scale dynamic social network directed graph data, and anonymous data publishing does not meet the needs of community structure analysis. A Dynamic Social Network Directed Graph K-In&Out-Degree Anonymity (DSNDG-KIODA) method to protect community structure is proposed. The method is based on the dynamic grouping anonymity rule to anonymize the dynamic K-in&out-degree sequence, and the virtual node distribution is added in parallel to construct an anonymous graph. The node information is transmitted based on the GraphX, and the virtual node pairs are selected and deleted according to the change of the directed graph modularity to reduce information loss. The experimental results show that the DSNDG-KIODA method improves the efficiency of processing large-scale dynamic social network directed graph data, and ensures the availability of community structure analysis when data is released.

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