Origin/Destination-estimation Using Cellular Network Data

Today there are more than 600 billion geo special transactions every day in the US alone [1], and most of this data is passing through carriers networks. Hence, the carriers are sitting on a huge pile of potential knowledge which they could make more use of. Earlier attempt on this data have been very ambitious and often failed due to the nature of the data. In this paper present an innovative method that does enough, not too much with the data. Our method addresses how to handle the big data challenge as well as how one could plan to secure the privacy of the end users. The latter being one of the main reasons why carriers have not deployed anything similar yet. They have simply been too afraid of what would happen if the data would be mistreated or perceived as misused.