A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks

With the widespread popularity of Wireless Mobile Networks (WMNs) in our daily life, the huge risk to disclose personal privacy of massive graph structure data in WMNs receives more and more attention. Particularly, as a special type of graph data in WMNs, the directed graph contains an amount of se...

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Main Authors: Jun Yan, Yihui Zhou, Laifeng Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-07-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/14/8089
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Yihui Zhou
Laifeng Lu
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description With the widespread popularity of Wireless Mobile Networks (WMNs) in our daily life, the huge risk to disclose personal privacy of massive graph structure data in WMNs receives more and more attention. Particularly, as a special type of graph data in WMNs, the directed graph contains an amount of sensitive personal information. To provide secure and reliable privacy preservation for directed graphs in WMNs, we develop a node differential privacy-based method, which combines differential privacy with graph modification. In the method, the original directed graph is first divided into several sub-graphs after it is transformed into a weighted graph. Then, in each sub-graph, the node degree sequences are obtained by using an exponential mechanism and micro-aggregation is adopted to get the noised node degree sequences, which is used to generate a synthetic directed sub-graph through edge modification. Finally, all synthetic sub-graphs are merged into a synthetic directed graph that can preserve the original directed graph. The theoretical analysis proves that the proposed method satisfies differential privacy. The results of the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method in privacy preservation and data utility.
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spelling doaj.art-ee13abb0c41647cfbffcc5adc6cc423d2023-11-18T18:08:01ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-07-011314808910.3390/app13148089A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile NetworksJun Yan0Yihui Zhou1Laifeng Lu2School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, ChinaSchool of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, ChinaSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, ChinaWith the widespread popularity of Wireless Mobile Networks (WMNs) in our daily life, the huge risk to disclose personal privacy of massive graph structure data in WMNs receives more and more attention. Particularly, as a special type of graph data in WMNs, the directed graph contains an amount of sensitive personal information. To provide secure and reliable privacy preservation for directed graphs in WMNs, we develop a node differential privacy-based method, which combines differential privacy with graph modification. In the method, the original directed graph is first divided into several sub-graphs after it is transformed into a weighted graph. Then, in each sub-graph, the node degree sequences are obtained by using an exponential mechanism and micro-aggregation is adopted to get the noised node degree sequences, which is used to generate a synthetic directed sub-graph through edge modification. Finally, all synthetic sub-graphs are merged into a synthetic directed graph that can preserve the original directed graph. The theoretical analysis proves that the proposed method satisfies differential privacy. The results of the experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the presented method in privacy preservation and data utility.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/14/8089wireless mobile networksdirected graphdifferential privacygraph modification
spellingShingle Jun Yan
Yihui Zhou
Laifeng Lu
A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
Applied Sciences
wireless mobile networks
directed graph
differential privacy
graph modification
title A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
title_full A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
title_fullStr A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
title_full_unstemmed A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
title_short A Node Differential Privacy-Based Method to Preserve Directed Graphs in Wireless Mobile Networks
title_sort node differential privacy based method to preserve directed graphs in wireless mobile networks
topic wireless mobile networks
directed graph
differential privacy
graph modification
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/14/8089
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