Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities
Researchers have been unable to predict the large-scale features of aggregate social networks. We analyze the anonymous communications patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. With these communications, we construct the social network of the customers, that we call micro...
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| author | Krings, Gautier Calabrese, Francesco Ratti, Carlo Blondel, Vincent D. |
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| description | Researchers have been unable to predict the large-scale features of aggregate social networks. We analyze the anonymous communications patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. With these communications, we construct the social network of the customers, that we call microscopic network. Grouping customers together by billing address city, we obtain a social network of cities, which we call the macroscopic network, is built from 571 towns and cities in Belgium. Using the mobile phone network, we are able to show that the macroscopic network has both a degree distribution and edge weight distribution with lognormal characteristics. We find that inter-city communications can be characterized by a gravity model: the intensity of communication between two cities is proportional to the product of the two populations divided by the square of the distance between them. Furthermore, we observe that intra-urban communications scale superlinearly with city population. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/594782022-10-03T10:57:32Z Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities Krings, Gautier Calabrese, Francesco Ratti, Carlo Blondel, Vincent D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology. SENSEable City Laboratory Ratti, Carlo Ratti, Carlo Calabrese, Francesco Researchers have been unable to predict the large-scale features of aggregate social networks. We analyze the anonymous communications patterns of 2.5 million customers of a Belgian mobile phone operator. With these communications, we construct the social network of the customers, that we call microscopic network. Grouping customers together by billing address city, we obtain a social network of cities, which we call the macroscopic network, is built from 571 towns and cities in Belgium. Using the mobile phone network, we are able to show that the macroscopic network has both a degree distribution and edge weight distribution with lognormal characteristics. We find that inter-city communications can be characterized by a gravity model: the intensity of communication between two cities is proportional to the product of the two populations divided by the square of the distance between them. Furthermore, we observe that intra-urban communications scale superlinearly with city population. 2010-10-22T18:07:34Z 2010-10-22T18:07:34Z 2009-10 2009-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 978-1-4244-5334-4 INSPEC Accession Number: 10915381 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59478 ©2009 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-5631 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSE.2009.272 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009. CSE '09. Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | Krings, Gautier Calabrese, Francesco Ratti, Carlo Blondel, Vincent D. Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title | Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title_full | Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title_fullStr | Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title_short | Scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| title_sort | scaling behaviors in the communication network between cities |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59478 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-5631 |
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