Paper Info
Title
Hyperlocal: inferring location of IP addresses in real-time bid requests for mobile ads
Abstract
To conduct a successful targeting campaign in mobile advertising, one needs to have reliable location information from real-time bid requests. However, many real-time bid requests do not include fine-grained location information (such as latitude and longitude) because (1) the device or the application did not collect that information or (2) some components of the real-time bid ecosystem did not forward that information. In this paper, we present a three-step approach that takes as input hashed public IP addresses in real-time bid requests and (1) creates a weighted heterogenous network, (2) applies network-inference techniques to infer fine-grain (but possibly noisy) location information for the hashed public IPs, and (3) uses k-nearest neighbor and census data to assign census block group IDs to those hashed public IPs. Our experiments on two large real-world datasets show the accuracy of our approach to be over 74% for hashed IPs (regardless of their type: mobile or non-mobile) when basing the inference on only hashed public mobile IPs. This is notable since our inference is over 212K possibilities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2536689.2536807
LBSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
public mobile ips,public ip address,reliable location information,fine-grained location information,real-time bid request,hashed ips,inferring location,location information,real-time bid ecosystem,hashed public ips,mobile advertising,location based services
Data mining,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Hyperlocal,Inference,Computer science,Geographic coordinate system,Location-based service,Mobile advertising
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
11
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Long Thanh Le1394.96
Tina Eliassi-Rad21597108.63
Foster J. Provost35427740.79
Lauren Moores410.36