Inferring properties and revealing geographical impacts of intercity mobile communication network of China using a subnet data set

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 431-448

  Kang, Chaogui ^a   Zhang, Y ^a   Ma, Xiujun ^b   Liu, Y ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Peking University   (China)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distance decay effect; gravity model; intercity mobile communication; rank size distribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION NETWORK; DATA SET; GRAVITY; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TELECOMMUNICATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84875955466     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.689838     Document Type: Article

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