Program: Transaction Network Generator

Transaction network generator is a Python script to generate a network topology for the simulator.

Requirements

• NetworkX 1.10 (2.0 or later will not work)

How to run

1. Load an account parameter file and create all accounts

See here for more details.

python scripts/transaction_graph_generator.py [PropFile] [DegreeFile] [TransactionTypeFile] [AlertFile]

• PropFile: Configuration file path (prop.ini) of the transaction graph generator
• DegreeFile: Degree distribution parameter file
• TransactionTypeFile: Transaction type parameter file
• AlertFile: Alert parameter file

Example:

python scripts/transaction_relationship_generator.py prop.ini paramFiles/deg1K.csv paramFiles/tx_type.csv paramFiles/alerts.csv

Parameter and configuration files

See CSV files under paramFiles directory

• accounts.csv
  • Account parameter file
• alertPatterns.csv
  • Alert (fraud) transaction pattern parameter file
• degree.csv
  • Degree distribution parameter file
• transactionType.csv
  • Transaction distribution parameter file

Configuration file

• prop.ini