Sybil attacks are one of the most prominent security problems of trust mechanisms in a distributed network with a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous devices,which expose serious threat to edge computing ...Sybil attacks are one of the most prominent security problems of trust mechanisms in a distributed network with a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous devices,which expose serious threat to edge computing based distributed systems.Graphbased Sybil detection approaches extract social structures from target distributed systems,refine the graph via preprocessing methods and capture Sybil nodes based on the specific properties of the refined graph structure.Graph preprocessing is a critical component in such Sybil detection methods,and intuitively,the processing methods will affect the detection performance.Thoroughly understanding the dependency on the graph-processing methods is very important to develop and deploy Sybil detection approaches.In this paper,we design experiments and conduct systematic analysis on graph-based Sybil detection with respect to different graph preprocessing methods on selected network environments.The experiment results disclose the sensitivity caused by different graph transformations on accuracy and robustness of Sybil detection methods.展开更多
基金the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFB0802403)the Beijing Natural Science Foundation(No.4202036)+1 种基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1733115,No.61871023)the Opening Project of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Inte grated Administration Technologies for Information Security(No.AGK2019001).
文摘Sybil attacks are one of the most prominent security problems of trust mechanisms in a distributed network with a large number of highly dynamic and heterogeneous devices,which expose serious threat to edge computing based distributed systems.Graphbased Sybil detection approaches extract social structures from target distributed systems,refine the graph via preprocessing methods and capture Sybil nodes based on the specific properties of the refined graph structure.Graph preprocessing is a critical component in such Sybil detection methods,and intuitively,the processing methods will affect the detection performance.Thoroughly understanding the dependency on the graph-processing methods is very important to develop and deploy Sybil detection approaches.In this paper,we design experiments and conduct systematic analysis on graph-based Sybil detection with respect to different graph preprocessing methods on selected network environments.The experiment results disclose the sensitivity caused by different graph transformations on accuracy and robustness of Sybil detection methods.
