Bayesian framework for mobility pattern discovery using mobile network events

Understanding human mobility patterns is of great importance for planning urban and extra-urban spaces and communication infrastructures. The omnipresence of mobile telephony in today’s society opens new avenues of discovering the patterns of human mobility by means of analyzing cellular network data. Of particular interest is analyzing passively collected Network Events (NEs) due to their scalability. However, mobility pattern analysis based on network events is challenging because of the coarse granularity of NEs. In this paper, we propose network event-based Bayesian approaches for mobility pattern recognition and reconstruction, mode of transport recognition and modeling the frequent trajectories