Determining user communities in communication networks

What is disclosed is a method of operating a communication network, where the communication network comprises a set of users. The method includes obtaining usage activity for each of the users of the set and processing the usage activity to determine connectivity information between individual ones...

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Hauptverfasser: Faloutsos Christos, Schneider James Christopher, Seshadri Mukund, Prakash Bodicherla Aditya, Machiraju Sridhar, Sridharan Ashwin
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:What is disclosed is a method of operating a communication network, where the communication network comprises a set of users. The method includes obtaining usage activity for each of the users of the set and processing the usage activity to determine connectivity information between individual ones of the users of the set. The method also includes processing the connectivity information to determine users of the set with similar connectivity, and processing the users of the set with similar connectivity to identify a community of users within the users of the set with similar connectivity. The method also includes monitoring at least one of the users in the community to determine if action is needed for at least another one of the users in the community.