The elliptic model for communication fluxes


Autoria(s): Herrera Yagüe, Carlos; Schneider, C. M.; Smoreda, Zbigniew; Couronné, Thomas; Zufiria Zatarain, Pedro Jose; González, Marta C.
Data(s)

01/04/2014

Resumo

In this paper, a model (called the elliptic model) is proposed to estimate the number of social ties between two locations using population data in a similar manner to how transportation research deals with trips. To overcome the asymmetry of transportation models, the new model considers that the number of relationships between two locations is inversely proportional to the population in the ellipse whose foci are in these two locations. The elliptic model is evaluated by considering the anonymous communications patterns of 25 million users from three different countries, where a location has been assigned to each user based on their most used phone tower or billing zip code. With this information, spatial social networks are built at three levels of resolution: tower, city and region for each of the three countries. The elliptic model achieves a similar performance when predicting communication fluxes as transportation models do when predicting trips. This shows that human relationships are influenced at least as much by geography as is human mobility.

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http://oa.upm.es/35853/

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM)

Relação

http://oa.upm.es/35853/1/INVE_MEM_2014_191612.pdf

http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-5468/2014/4/P04022/article?fromSearchPage=true

info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1088/1742-5468/2014/04/P04022

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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Fonte

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, ISSN 1742-5468, 2014-04, Vol. 2014

Palavras-Chave #Matemáticas #Telecomunicaciones
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article

Artículo

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