Abstract
Social networks are becoming popular, with people sharing information with their friends on social networking sites. On many of these sites, shared information can be read by all of the friends; however, not all information is suitable for mass distribution and access. Although people can form communities on some sites, this feature is not yet available on all sites. Additionally, it is inconvenient to set receivers for a message when the target community is large. One characteristic of social networks is that people who know each other tend to form densely connected clusters, and connections between clusters are relatively rare. Based on this feature, community-finding algorithms have been proposed to detect communities on social networks. However, it is difficult to apply community-finding algorithms to distributed social networks. In this paper, we propose a distributed privacy control protocol for distributed social networks. By selecting only a small portion of people from a community, our protocol can transmit information to the target community.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 7137480 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Security and Communication Networks |
Volume | 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 5 Jun 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Copyright © 2020 Shu-Chuan Chu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords
- Social networks
- privacy control protocol
- community-finding algorithms
- clusters