Community detection in cellular network traces
Mariya Zhivkova Zheleva, Paul Schmitt, Morgan Vigil, Elizabeth Belding · 2013
Studies of user behavior in cellular networks have served as a knowledge base for development of critical applications and services catered to specific user needs. In this paper we examine community persistence in egocentric social graphs extracted from cellular network traces in the Cote d'Ivoire provided by Orange. The goal of our study is to inform mechanisms for improved dissemination of information by identifying subscribers or groups that can serve as information relays. We find that communities that persist in an egocentric network are independent of one another. Thus, multiple information relays can be selected from each independent community, to increase the probability that information will flow to the ego.