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Case Study: Spark GPU-Enabled Framework to Control COVID-19 Spread Using Cell-Phone Spatio-Temporal Data
Hussein Shahata Abdallah1, *, Mohamed H. Khafagy1, Fatma A. Omara2
1 Department of Computer Science, Fayoum University, Fayoum, 63514, Egypt.
2 Department of Computer Science, Cairo University, Giza, 1261, Egypt.
* Corresponding Author: Hussein Shahata Abdallah. Email: .
(This article belongs to this Special Issue: Artificial Intelligence and Information Technologies for COVID-19)
Computers, Materials & Continua 2020, 65(2), 1303-1320. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011313
Received 30 April 2020; Accepted 25 June 2020; Issue published 20 August 2020
Abstract
Nowadays, the world is fighting a dangerous form of Coronavirus that
represents an emerging pandemic. Since its early appearance in China Wuhan city, many
countries undertook several strict regulations including lockdowns and social distancing
measures. Unfortunately, these procedures have badly impacted the world economy.
Detecting and isolating positive/probable virus infected cases using a tree tracking
mechanism constitutes a backbone for containing and resisting such fast spreading
disease. For helping this hard effort, this research presents an innovative case study based
on big data processing techniques to build a complete tracking system able to identify the
central areas of infected/suspected people, and the new suspected cases using health
records integration with mobile stations spatio-temporal data logs. The main idea is to
identify the positive cases historical movements by tracking their phone location for the
last 14 days (i.e., the virus incubation period). Then, by acquiring the citizen’s mobile
phone locations for the same period, the system will be able to measure the Euclidean
distances between positive case locations and other nearby people to identify the incontact suspected-cases using parallel clustering and classification techniques. Moreover,
the daily change of the clusters size and its centroids will be used to predict new regions
of infection, as well as, new cases. Moreover, this approach will support infection
avoidance by alerting people approaching areas of high probability of infection using their
mobile GPS location. This case study has been developed as a simulation system
consisting of three components; positive cases/citizens movement’s data generation
subsystem, big data processing platform including CPU/GPU tasks, and data
visualization/map geotagging subsystem. The processing of such a big data system
requires intensive computing tasks. Therefore, GPU tasks carried out to achieve high
performance and accelerate the data processing. According to the simulated system
results, data partitioning and processing speed up measures have been examined.
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Cite This Article
H. Shahata Abdallah, M. H. Khafagy and F. A. Omara, "Case study: spark gpu-enabled framework to control covid-19 spread using cell-phone spatio-temporal data,"
Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 65, no.2, pp. 1303–1320, 2020. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2020.011313
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