Presentation 2022-12-13
A Study on Obfuscation of Node Centrality in Large-Scale Networks
Hiroki Kawamura, Takeaki Iwata, Ryotaro Matsuo, Hiroyuki Ohsaki,
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Abstract(in English) Node centrality (e.g., degree centrality, eigenvector centrality, betweenness centrality), which is determined by the network topology, is widely used in network analysis, data mining, and many other applications. However, node centrality is a quantitative measure of indicating how node is relatively important than others, and nodes with high centrality are at various risks because they contain information and value that can have a significant impact on surrounding nodes and the network. Several high-precision centrality measures have been proposed, and many studies have been conducted to accelerate the calculation of centrality measures, but on the other hand, from the perspective of security and privacy protection, it is also required to obfuscate the centrality of nodes. In this study, we therefore propose an algorithm to obfuscate the centrality of a particular set of nodes in a large-scale network by adding and deleting a small number of links. Specifically, we propose COBF (Centrality OBFuscation), which applies a concept of ProHiCo (Probabilistic algorithm to Hide Communities) by Liu et al., and we investigate how the centrality can be obfuscated with our algorithm.
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Keyword(in English) Large-scale Network / Node Centrality / Centrality Obfuscation Algorithm / ProHiCo (Probabilistic algorithm to Hide Communities)
Paper # IA2022-55
Date of Issue 2022-12-05 (IA)

Conference Information
Committee IN / IA
Conference Date 2022/12/12(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Higashi-Senda campus, Hiroshima Univ.
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Performance Analysis and Simulation, Robustness, Traffic and Throughput Measurement, Quality of Service (QoS) Control, Congestion Control, Overlay Network/P2P, IPv6, Multicast, Routing, DDoS, etc.
Chair Kunio Hato(Internet Multifeed) / Tomoki Yoshihisa(Osaka Univ.)
Vice Chair Tsutomu Murase(Nagoya Univ.) / Yusuke Sakumoto(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.) / Yuichiro Hei(KDDI Research) / Hiroshi Yamamoto(Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Secretary Tsutomu Murase(KDDI Research) / Yusuke Sakumoto(Nagaoka Univ. of Tech.) / Yuichiro Hei(NTT) / Hiroshi Yamamoto(NTT)
Assistant / Daisuke Kotani(Kyoto Univ.) / Ryo Nakamura(Fukuoka Univ.) / Ryo Nakamura(Univ. of Tokyo)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Information Networks / Technical Committee on Internet Architecture
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) A Study on Obfuscation of Node Centrality in Large-Scale Networks
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Large-scale Network
Keyword(2) Node Centrality
Keyword(3) Centrality Obfuscation Algorithm
Keyword(4) ProHiCo (Probabilistic algorithm to Hide Communities)
1st Author's Name Hiroki Kawamura
1st Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Takeaki Iwata
2nd Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Ryotaro Matsuo
3rd Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
4th Author's Name Hiroyuki Ohsaki
4th Author's Affiliation Kwansei Gakuin University(Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
Date 2022-12-13
Paper # IA2022-55
Volume (vol) vol.122
Number (no) IA-306
Page pp.pp.40-46(IA),
#Pages 7
Date of Issue 2022-12-05 (IA)