Multidimensional modeling and analysis of wireless users online activity and mobility: a neural-networks map approach

  • Authors:
  • Saeed Moghaddam;Ahmed Helmy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA;University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

User online behavior and interests will play a central role in future mobile networks. We introduce a systematic method for large-scale multi-dimensional modeling and analysis of online activity and mobility for thousands of mobile users across 79 buildings over a variety of web domains. We propose a modeling approach based on kind of neural-networks, called self-organizing maps (SOM), for discovering, organizing and visualizing different mobile users' trends from billions of WLAN records. We find surprisingly that users' trends based on domains and locations can be accurately modeled using a self-organizing map with clearly distinct characteristics. We also find many non-trivial correlations between different types of web domains and locations.