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The application of big data in urban computing is multidimensional; it has been involved in different fields, such as urban planning, network optimization, intelligent transportation, energy consumption and so on. Data analysis becomes particularly important for wireless networks. In this paper, a method for analyzing cellular traffic data was proposed. Firstly, a method to extract trend components, periodic components and essential components from complex traffic time series was proposed. Secondly, we introduced causality data mining. Different from traditional time series causality analysis, the depth of causal mining was increased. We conducted causality verification on different components of time series and the results showed that the causal relationship between base stations is different in trend component, periodic component and essential component in urban wireless network. This is crucial for urban planning and network management. Thirdly, DIC-ST: a spatial temporal time series prediction based on decomposition and integration system with causal structure learning was proposed by combining GCN. Final results showed that the proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of cellular traffic prediction. At the same time, this method can play a crucial role for urban computing in network management, intelligent transportation, base station siting and energy consumption when combined with remote sensing map information.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14061439","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,16]],"date-time":"2022-03-16T22:15:04Z","timestamp":1647468904000},"page":"1439","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["DIC-ST: A Hybrid Prediction Framework Based on Causal Structure Learning for Cellular Traffic and Its Application in Urban Computing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2091-2336","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kaisa","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Gang","family":"Chuai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8048-6703","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jinxi","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7870-2270","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiangyu","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiwei","family":"Si","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]},{"given":"Saidiwaerdi","family":"Maimaiti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, X. 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