Planet-scale human mobility measurement

Pan Hui, Richard Mortier, Michal Piórkowski, Tristan Henderson, Jon Crowcroft
2010 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement - HotPlanet '10  
Research into, and design and construction of mobile systems and algorithms requires access to large-scale mobility data. Unfortunately, the research community lacks such data. For instance, the largest available human contact traces contain only 100 nodes with very sparse connectivity, limited by experimental logistics. In this paper we pose a challenge to the community: how can we collect mobility data from billions of human participants? We re-assert the importance of large-scale datasets in
more » ... communication network design, and claim that this could impact fundamental studies in other academic disciplines. In effect, we argue that planet-scale mobility measurements can help to save the world. For example, through understanding large-scale human mobility, we can track and model and contain the spread of epidemics of various kinds.
doi:10.1145/1834616.1834618 dblp:conf/mobisys/HuiMPHC10 fatcat:dptztqzrozgjffz4qnw26o43xa