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Call detail records (CDR) from mobile phone networks are widely used to study human mobility however CDR data from a single mobile operator are inherently biased because the observed users do not mirror the population distribution. Using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-20 Leo Ferres , Laetitia Gauvin

The ubiquitous use of mobile devices and associated Internet services generates vast volumes of geolocated data, offering valuable insights into human behaviors and their interactions with urban environments. Over the past decade, mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-16 Maxime Lenormand

In this paper, an efficient deployment strategy is proposed for a network of mobile and static sensors with nonidentical sensing and communication radii. The multiplicatively weighted Voronoi (MW-Voronoi) diagram is used to partition the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Hesam Mosalli , Amir G. Aghdam

Recent years have witnessed unprecedented amounts of data generated by telecommunication (Telco) cellular networks. For example, measurement records (MRs) are generated to report the connection states between mobile devices and Telco…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yige Zhang , Weixiong Rao , Kun Zhang , Lei Chen

This paper has been withdrawn by the authors. With the rigorous growth of cellular network many mobility datasets are available publically, which attracted researchers to study human mobility fall under spatio-temporal phenomenon. Mobility…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Shafqat Ali Shad , Enhong Chen

Mobile phones are now widely adopted by most of the world population. Each time a call is made (or an SMS sent), a Call Detail Record (CDR) is generated by the telecom companies for billing purpose. These metadata provide information on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Damien C. Jacques

For pedestrians moving without spatial constraints, extensive research has been devoted to develop methods of density estimation. In this paper we present a new approach based on Voronoi cells, offering a means to estimate density for…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-28 Pratik Mullick , Cécile Appert-Rolland , William H. Warren , Julien Pettré

The partition of the Mobile Phone Network (MPN) service area into the cell towers' Voronoi polygons (VP) may serve as a coordinate system for representing the location of the mobile phone devices. This view is shared by numerous papers that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-05-27 Aleksey Ogulenko , Itzhak Benenson , Marina Toger , John Östh , Alexey Siretskiy

In this paper, we study a new type of spatial sparse recovery problem, that is to infer the fine-grained spatial distribution of certain density data in a region only based on the aggregate observations recorded for each of its subregions.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Bang Liu , Borislav Mavrin , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

This tutorial is intended as an accessible but rigorous first reference for someone interested in learning how to model and analyze cellular network performance using stochastic geometry. In particular, we focus on computing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Abhishek K. Gupta , Harpreet S. Dhillon

Radio Environment Maps (REMs) are crucial for numerous applications in Telecom. The construction of accurate Radio Environment Maps (REMs) has become an important and challenging topic in recent decades. In this paper, we present a method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Ali Shibli , Tahar Zanouda

In this paper we investigate relationships between the volumes of cells of three-dimensional Voronoi tessellations and the lengths and areas of sections obtained by intersecting the tessellation with a randomly oriented plane. Here, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-12 L. Zaninetti , M. Ferraro

The volume and types of traffic data in mobile cellular networks have been increasing continuously. Meanwhile, traffic data change dynamically in several dimensions such as time and space. Thus, traffic modeling is essential for theoretical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Shuo Wang , Xing Zhang , Jiaxin Zhang , Jian Feng , Wenbo Wang , Ke Xin

Human mobility analysis is an important issue in social sciences, and mobility data are among the most sought-after sources of information in ur- Data ban studies, geography, transportation and territory management. In network sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Thomas Couronne , Zbigniew Smoreda , Ana-Maria Olteanu

It is a great challenge to evaluate the network performance of cellular mobile communication systems. In this paper, we propose new spatial spectrum and energy efficiency models for Poisson-Voronoi tessellation (PVT) random cellular…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Xiaohu Ge , Bin Yang , Junliang Ye , Guoqiang Mao , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Tao Han

In trying to emulate the spatial position of wireless nodes for purpose of analysis, we rely on stochastic simulation. And, it is customary, for mobile systems, to consider a base-station radiation coverage by an ideal cell shape. For…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Mouhamed Abdulla , Yousef R. Shayan

Accurately estimating data density is crucial for making informed decisions and modeling in various fields. This paper presents a novel nonparametric density estimation procedure that utilizes bivariate penalized spline smoothing over…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-29 Kunal Das , Shan Yu , Guannan Wang , Li Wang

Context-aware applications have been gaining huge interest in the last few years. With cell phones becoming ubiquitous computing devices, cell phone localization has become an important research problem. In this paper, we present CellSense,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Mohamed Ibrahim , Moustafa Youssef

Spatial-temporal prediction is a critical problem for intelligent transportation, which is helpful for tasks such as traffic control and accident prevention. Previous studies rely on large-scale traffic data collected from sensors. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chung-Yi Lin , Hung-Ting Su , Shen-Lung Tung , Winston H. Hsu

Context-aware applications have been gaining huge interest in the last few years. With cell phones becoming ubiquitous computing devices, cell phone localization has become an important research problem. In this paper, we present CellSense,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Mohamed Ibrahim , Moustafa Youssef