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SpamDetector : Detecting spam callers in Voice over Internet Protocol with graph anomalies
Author(s) -
Swarnkar Mayank,
Hubballi Neminath
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
security and privacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-6725
DOI - 10.1002/spy2.54
Subject(s) - voice over ip , computer science , computer network , the internet , node (physics) , graph , call graph , world wide web , theoretical computer science , engineering , structural engineering
SPam over Internet Telephony is a major issue in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems where a large number of automated unsolicited calls are made to users of VoIP. The economy of communication that VoIP brings is a lucrative proposition to spammers. In this paper, we describe a method to detect spammers in VoIP by identifying anomalies in the CallGraph . This directed, weighted graph is generated using call data records of users where a set of differentiating call parameters are used to derive weights on the edges. We identify anomalies in the graph by considering the local neighborhood of a node under consideration and assign a label based on how similar the node is in comparison to its neighbors. The similarity between a node and its neighbor is measured through a parameter known as SpamOutlierFactor . We experiment with a large simulated user base and show that the proposed method can detect spam callers.