Big Data Driven Hidden Markov Model Based Individual Mobility Prediction at Points of Interest

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1-2017

Abstract

With the emergence of smartphones and location-based services, user mobility prediction has become a critical enabler for a wide range of applications, like location-based advertising, early warning systems, and citywide traffic planning. A number of techniques have been proposed to either conduct spatiooral mobility prediction or forecast the next-place. However, both produce diverse prediction performance for different users and display poor performance for some users. This paper focuses on investigating the effect of living habits on the models of spatiooral prediction and next-place prediction, and selects one from these two models for an individual to achieve effective mobility prediction at users' points of interest. Based on the hidden Markov model (HMM), a spatiooral predictor and a next-place predictor are proposed. Living habits are analyzed in terms of entropy, upon which users are clustered into distinct groups. With large-scale factual mobile data captured from a big city, we compare the proposed HMM-based predictors with existing state-of-the-art predictors and apply them to different user groups. The results demonstrate the robust performance of the two proposed mobility predictors, which outperform the state of the art for various user groups.

Identifier

85028756317 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2016.2611654

ISSN

00189545

First Page

5204

Last Page

5216

Issue

6

Volume

66

Grant

2015RC11

Fund Ref

European Commission

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