2018/07/28 by Ezequiel Fattori, Fattori, Ezequiel, Pablo Groisman +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Diffusion and Search Dynamics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis #Point processes and geometric inequalities #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1807.10975
openalex publication_date 2018/07/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce a model for the spatial distribution of cell phone antennas in a urban environment. After showing that the complete spatial randomness (homogeneous Poisson distribution) hypothesis does not hold, we propose a model in which each point is distributed according to a bivariate Gaussian variable with mean given by the barycenter of its neighbors in the Delaunay triangulation. We show that this model is suitable, and can be used to generate a synthetic distribution of antennas. The generated distribution contains no sensitive or proprietary information, and can thus be freely shared with research groups, fostering further research on the subject.