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Connected Components for Infinite Graph Streams: Theory and Practice

Jonathan W. Berry·Cynthia A Phillips·Alexandra M. Porter
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Motivated by the properties of unending real-world cybersecurity streams, we present a new graph streaming model: XStream. We maintain a streaming graph and its connected components at single-edge granularity. In cybersecurity graph applications, input streams typically consist of edge insertions; individual deletions are not explicit. Analysts maintain as much history as possible and will trigger customized bulk deletions when necessary Despite a variety of dynamic graph processing systems and some canonical literature on theoretical sliding-window graph streaming, XStream is the first model explicitly designed to accommodate this usage model. Users can provide Boolean predicates to define bulk deletions. Edge arrivals are expected to occur continuously and must always be handled. XStream is implemented via a ring of finite-memory processors. We give algorithms to maintain connected components on the input stream, answer queries about connectivity, and to perform bulk deletion. The system requires bandwidth for internal messages that is some constant factor greater than the stream arrival rate. We prove a relationship among four quantities: the proportion of query downtime allowed, the proportion of edges that survive an aging event, the proportion of duplicated edges, and the bandwidth expansion factor. In addition to presenting the theory behind XStream, we present computational results for a single-threaded prototype implementation. Stream ingestion rates are bounded by computer architecture. We determine this bound for XStream inter-process message-passing rates in Intel TBB applications on Intel Sky Lake processors: between one and five million graph edges per second. Our single-threaded prototype runs our full protocols through multiple aging events at between one half and one a million edges per second, and we give ideas for speeding this up by orders of magnitude.

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Jonathan W. Berry, Cynthia A Phillips, Alexandra M. Porter. 2021-11-30. Connected Components for Infinite Graph Streams: Theory and Practice. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00098

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