Table 1 Overview of the real-world networks used in the experiments.

From: The effect of distant connections on node anonymity in complex networks

Network

Nodes

Edges

Fraction twins

\(max-\ell\)

Runtime d-k-anonymity

Runtime Anonymity-cascade

Type

d = 1

d = 2

\(C_1\)

\(C_{ max-\ell }\)

Radoslaw emails32

167

3250

0.072

3

0.02 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Communication

Primary school33

236

5899

0.000

1

0.02 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Human contact

Moreno innov.32

241

923

0.025

3

< 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Communication

Gene fusion32

291

279

0.753

6

< 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Biological

Copnet calls13

536

621

0.287

10

< 0.01 s

+ 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Communication

Copnet sms13

568

697

0.285

7

< 0.01 s

+ 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Communication

Copnet FB13

800

6418

0.005

4

0.02 s

+ 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Online social

FB Reed9834

962

18,812

0.012

3

0.05 s

+ 0.01 s

+ 0.01 s

+ 0.02 s

Online social

Arenas email32

1133

5451

0.042

5

0.02 s

+ 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Communication

Network science32

1461

2742

0.755

6

0.01 s

+ 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Co-autorship

FB Simmons8134

1518

32,988

0.011

3

0.12 s

+ 0.02 s

+ 0.01 s

+ 0.02 s

Online social

DNC emails32

1893

4385

0.706

4

0.02 s

+ 0.38 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Online social

Moreno health32

2539

10,455

0.003

5

0.03 s

+ 0.04 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Human social

FB Wellesley2234

2970

94,899

0.000

4

0.4 s

+ 0.07 s

+ 0.04 s

+ 0.08 s

Online social

Bitcoin alpha34

3783

14,124

0.306

5

0.04 s

+ 0.36 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ 0.01 s

Online social (trust)

GRQC collab.35

5242

14,484

0.455

8

0.03 s

+ 0.04 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Co-autorship

FB Carnegie4934

6637

249,967

0.008

4

1.37 s

+ 0.44 s

+ 0.09 s

+ 0.18 s

Online social

Pajek Erdős32

6927

11,850

0.737

6

0.02 s

+ 0.19 s

+ 0.01 s

+ 0.02 s

Co-autorship

DT interaction36

7341

15,138

0.572

12

0.07 s

+ 2.88 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Biological

DG assoc.36

7813

21,357

0.531

8

0.21 s

+ 5.13 s

+ < 0.01 s

+ < 0.01 s

Biological

FB GWU5434

12,193

469,528

0.006

4

2.64 s

+ 0.92 s

+ 0.18 s

+ 0.36 s

Online social

Anybeat34

12,645

49,132

0.500

5

0.41 s

+ 1.34 h

+ 0.02 s

+ 0.04 s

Online social

CE-CX34

15,229

245,952

0.021

6

1.04 s

+ 1.56 s

+ 0.09 s

+ 0.19 s

Biological

Astro Physics34

18,771

198,050

0.305

6

0.72 s

+ 1.91 s

+ 0.05 s

+ 0.11 s

Co-autorship

FB BU1034

19,700

637,528

0.006

4

3.17 s

+ 1.44 s

+ 0.25 s

+ 0.50 s

Online social

FB Uillinois34

30,664

1,048,574

0.002

4

5.96 s

+ 2.66 s

+ 0.39 s

+ 0.78 s

Online social

Enron email35

36,692

183,831

0.528

6

0.90 s

+ 1.44 m

+ 0.06 s

+ 0.12 s

Communication

FB Penn9434

41,536

1,362,220

0.002

4

8.95 s

+ 5.39 s

+ 0.50 s

+ 1.00 s

Online social

FB wall 200932

46,952

183,412

0.133

8

0.54 s

+ 1.80 s

+ 0.05 s

+ 0.13 s

Communication

Brightkite34

58,228

214,078

0.258

8

0.78 s

+ 18.41 s

+ 0.06 s

+ 0.14 s

Online social

The marker cafe37

69,413

1,644,843

0.200

5

37.96 s

+ 10.46 m

+ 0.67 s

+ 1.35 s

Human contact

Slashdot zoo32

79,116

467,731

0.274

7

3.36 s

+ 2.62 m

+ 0.15 s

+ 0.34 s

Online social

Twitter32

465,017

833,540

0.801

5

59.53 s

+ 6.04 h

+ 0.29 s

+ 0.62 s

Online social

DBLP32

1,824,701

8,344,615

0.402

10

51.37 s

+ 11.58 m

+ 28.1 s

+ 57.18 s

Co-autorship

Flixster32

2,523,386

7,918,801

0.631

8

3.10 m

+ 8.57 h

+ 18.58 s

+ 37.81 s

Online social

Youtube32

3,223,585

9,375,374

0.336

15

13.24 m

+ > 1 week

+ 30.68 s

+ 1.04 m

Online social

  1. For each network, we list the number of nodes, edges, fraction of twin nodes, the highest attained cascading level (\(max-\ell\)) and runtimes of the experiments performed containing the total runtime (\(d=1)\) and runtime additional to computing \(d=1\), indicated by “+” for \(d=2\), \(C_1\) and \(C_{ max-\ell }\).