MoCo: Urban User Mobile Contact Detection Based on Cellular Signaling Trace

Abstract

Mobile contact exhibits user co-traveling events within the same transportation tool, which is crucial for resident profiling, face-to-face interaction detection, etc. In this paper, we investigate urban user mobile contact detection with cellular signaling traces, which is cost-efficient to enable large-scale detection. Specifically, we develop a data collection platform to collect substantial user signaling traces, covering different types of road scenarios within a city. With the collected traces, we perform systematic data analysis to reveal several technical challenges, which are sparsity of signaling trajectory, remote base station noise, and fuzzy matching difficulties. To address challenges, we propose a mobile contact detection method namedMoCo. InMoCoframework, we first conduct data denoising to remove the noise from remote base stations. Then, we devise a spatio-temporal filter to eliminate unlikely mobile contact traces in both spatial and temporal domains, reducing the computational overhead. Finally, we design a detection network that integrates the submodules of data alignment, feature encoder, spatio-temporal representation learner, and user mobile contact detector. Extensive evaluation results demonstrate the superiority ofMoCoin comparison with state-of-the-art baselines. Robust experiments show thatMoCocan work efficiently in different transportation modes and urban densities.

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