Cell phone subscribers mobility prediction using enhanced Markov Chain algorithm

This article presents a mobility prediction method for mobile phone users based on an enhanced Markov Chain algorithm. The mobile phone data has a highly dynamic nature and a sparcely sampled aspect; therefore, the prediction of user´s mobility location poses a challenge. Our enhancement approach can be summarized as an embedded association of rules applied to a Markov chain algorithm. The proposed solution is encouraging for the next generation of mobile networks and it can be used to optimize the existing mobile network infrastructure, road traffic, tracking systems and localization. Validation of our system was carried out using real data collected from the field.