Using social network theory for modeling human mobility

IEEE Network

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 6-13

  Yang, Shusen ^a   Yang, Xinyu ^b   Zhang, Chao ^b   Spyrou, Evangelos ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-FORWARDING; HUMAN MOBILITY; HUMAN MOTIONS; K-CLIQUE; MOBILITY MODEL; MOVEMENT BEHAVIOR; OVERLAPPING COMMUNITIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SIMULATION RESULT; SOCIAL DIMENSIONS; SOCIAL GRAPHS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL NETWORK THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL FEATURES;

CIRCUIT THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MODELS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 77956951620     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2010.5578912     Document Type: Article

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