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Local detection of critical nodes in active graphs

  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Sandia National Laboratory

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Abstract

The identification of critical nodes in a graph is a fundamental task in network analysis. Centrality measures are commonly used for this purpose. These methods rely on two assumptions that restrict their applicability. First, they only depend on the topology of the network and do not consider the activity over the network. Second, they assume the entire network is available. However, in many applications, it is the underlying activity of the network such as interactions and communications that makes a node critical, and it is hard to collect the entire network topology, when the network is vast and autonomous. We propose a new measure, Active Betweenness Cardinality, where the importance of the nodes are based not on the static structure, but the active utilization of the network. We show how this metric can be computed efficiently by only local information for a given node and how we can locate the critical nodes by using only a few nodes. We also show how this metric can be used to monitor a network and identify node failures. We evaluate our metric and algorithms on real-world networks and show the effectiveness of the proposed methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018
EditorsAndrea Tagarelli, Chandan Reddy, Ulrik Brandes
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages107-110
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538660515
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 24 2018
Event10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: Aug 28 2018Aug 31 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018

Conference

Conference10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period08/28/1808/31/18

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