Measuring and Improving the Core Resilience of Networks
Abstract
The concept of k-cores is important for understanding the global structure of networks, as well as for identifying central or important nodes within a network. It is often valuable to understand the resilience of the k-cores of a network to attacks and dropped edges (i.e., damaged communications links). We provide a formal definition of a network»s core resilience, and examine the problem of characterizing core resilience in terms of the network»s structural features: in particular, which structural properties cause a network to have high or low core resilience? To measure this, we introduce two novel node properties,Core Strength andCore Influence, which measure the resilience of individual nodes» core numbers and their influence on other nodes» core numbers. Using these properties, we propose theMaximize Resilience of k-Core algorithm to add edges to improve the core resilience of a network. We consider two attack scenarios - randomly deleted edges and randomly deleted nodes. Through experiments on a variety of technological and infrastructure network datasets, we verify the efficacy of our node-based resilience measures at predicting the resilience of a network, and evaluate MRKC at the task of improving a network»s core resilience. We find that on average, for edge deletion attacks, MRKCmore »
- Authors:
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- Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
- University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
- Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1544290
- Resource Type:
- Conference
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: WWW '18 Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference, Lyon, France, April 23 - 27, 2018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Laishram, Ricky, Sariyüce, Ahmet Erdem, Eliassi-Rad, Tina, Pinar, Ali, and Soundarajan, Sucheta. Measuring and Improving the Core Resilience of Networks. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1145/3178876.3186127.
Laishram, Ricky, Sariyüce, Ahmet Erdem, Eliassi-Rad, Tina, Pinar, Ali, & Soundarajan, Sucheta. Measuring and Improving the Core Resilience of Networks. United States. doi:10.1145/3178876.3186127.
Laishram, Ricky, Sariyüce, Ahmet Erdem, Eliassi-Rad, Tina, Pinar, Ali, and Soundarajan, Sucheta. Mon .
"Measuring and Improving the Core Resilience of Networks". United States. doi:10.1145/3178876.3186127.
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abstractNote = {The concept of k-cores is important for understanding the global structure of networks, as well as for identifying central or important nodes within a network. It is often valuable to understand the resilience of the k-cores of a network to attacks and dropped edges (i.e., damaged communications links). We provide a formal definition of a network»s core resilience, and examine the problem of characterizing core resilience in terms of the network»s structural features: in particular, which structural properties cause a network to have high or low core resilience? To measure this, we introduce two novel node properties,Core Strength andCore Influence, which measure the resilience of individual nodes» core numbers and their influence on other nodes» core numbers. Using these properties, we propose theMaximize Resilience of k-Core algorithm to add edges to improve the core resilience of a network. We consider two attack scenarios - randomly deleted edges and randomly deleted nodes. Through experiments on a variety of technological and infrastructure network datasets, we verify the efficacy of our node-based resilience measures at predicting the resilience of a network, and evaluate MRKC at the task of improving a network»s core resilience. We find that on average, for edge deletion attacks, MRKC improves the resilience of a network by 11.1% over the original network, as compared to the best baseline method, which improves the resilience of a network by only 2%. For node deletion attacks, MRKC improves the core resilience of the original network by 19.7% on average, while the best baseline improves it by only 3%.},
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