Human mobility characterization from cellular network data

Authors:
Richard Becker;Ramón Cáceres;Karrie Hanson;Sibren Isaacman;Ji Meng Loh;Margaret Martonosi;James Rowland;Simon Urbanek;Alexander Varshavsky;Chris Volinsky
Affiliations:
AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore;New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ;Princeton University, Princeton, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
2013

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