Vehicular Mobility and Sociality Analysis

Participants: Hongzi Zhu

Sponsors: LION

In this project, we analyze vehicular mobility in term of pairwise contacts (i.e., two vehicles approach within the communication range of each other) based on large-scale GPS trace data of over 20,000 vehicles we collected. The inter-contact time (ICT) distribution is studied and it turns out that the tail distribution of vehicular ICTs follows an exponential distribution, which is in sharp contract to the counterpart of human mobility. We also investigate the driven forces of such distribution and find city/road hotspots is a leading factor. In addition to contact-level mobility, we also extract the relationships between each pair of vehicles and find clear social structures existing in the network topology.


Related Publications

Hongzi Zhu, Luoyi Fu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li, Yanmin Zhu and Lionel M. Ni
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (Mini-conference), San Diego, USA.
Hongzi Zhu, Minglu Li, Luoyi Fu, Guangtao Xue, Yanmin Zhu and Lionel M. Ni
IEEE Transactions on Distributed and Parallel Systems (IEEE TPDS), 22(8), pp. 1258-1266, Aug. 2011.
Hongzi Zhu, Shan Chang, Minglu Li, Sagar Naik and Sherman Shen
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China.
Hongzi Zhu, Mianxiong Dong, Shan Chang, Yanmin Zhu, Minglu Li and Sherman Shen
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy.
Jun Qin, Hongzi Zhu, Yanmin Zhu, Li Lu, Guangtao Xue and Minglu Li
in Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada.
Jun Qin, Hongzi Zhu, Yanmin Zhu, Li Lu, Guangtao Xue and Minglu Li
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), 27(6), pp. 1770-1782, 2016.

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