A data mining approach for location prediction in mobile environments

  • Authors:
  • Gökhan Yavas;Dimitrios Katsaros;Özgür Ulusoy;Yannis Manolopoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece;Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey;Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Mobility prediction is one of the most essential issues that need to be explored for mobility management in mobile computing systems. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm for predicting the next intercell movement of a mobile user in a Personal Communication Systems network. In the first phase of our three-phase algorithm, user mobility patterns are mined from the history of mobile user trajectories. In the second phase, mobility rules are extracted from these patterns, and in the last phase, mobility predictions are accomplished by using these rules. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through simulation as compared to two other prediction methods. The performance results obtained in terms of Precision and Recall indicate that our method can make more accurate predictions than the other methods.