Paper Info
Title
Communication cliques in mobile phone calling networks.
Abstract
People in modern societies form different social networks through numerous means of communication. These communication networks reflect different aspects of human's societal structure. The billing records of calls among mobile phone users enable us to construct a directed calling network (DCN) and its Bonferroni network (SVDCN) in which the preferential communications are statistically validated. Here we perform a comparative investigation of the cliques of the original DCN and its SVDCN constructed from the calling records of more than nine million individuals in Shanghai over a period of 110 d. We find that the statistical properties of the cliques of the two calling networks are qualitatively similar and the clique members in the DCN and the SVDCN exhibit idiosyncratic behaviors quantitatively. Members in large cliques are found to be spatially close to each other. Based on the clique degree profile of each mobile phone user, the most active users in the two calling networks can be classified into several groups. The users in different groups are found to have different calling behaviors. Our study unveils interesting communication behaviors among mobile phone users that are densely connected to each other.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1088/1742-5468/2015/11/P11007
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
Keywords
Field
DocType
random graphs,networks,socio-economic networks,communication,supply and information networks
Telecommunications network,Social network,Clique,Bonferroni correction,Quantum mechanics,Computer network,Nine million,Social structure,Mobile phone,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/1509.06197
11
1742-5468
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.44
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming-Xia Li1806.13
Wen-Jie Xie21269.98
Zhi-Qiang Jiang3685.20
Wei-Xing Zhou420615.05