The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

By Christian Bettstetter, Giovanni Resta, Paolo Santi. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2003

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility (2008, methodology): “RWPtendsto havevery short pathsbecause RWPnodes tend to cluster around the center of the simulation area [ 1 ].”
Detecting Blackhole Attack on AODV-based Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Dynamic Learning Method (2007, methodology): “Random Waypoint Model (RWP) [1] is used as the mobility model of each node.”
Perfect simulation and stationarity of a class of mobility models (2005, background): “Neither [8] nor [2] consider how to run perfect simulations.”
Robust Distributed Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks (2008, background): “…order for such a decision variable to be robust against SSDF attacks, f (·) should satisfy two requirements: 1) f (·) accepts an r i with arbitrary value and outputs a w i ∈ [0] [1], and f (·) should be an non-decreasing function of r i , i.e., w i ≥ w j if r i ≥ r j (i, j = 0, . . . , m; i = j).”
Spatial node distribution of the random waypoint mobility model with applications (2006, methodology): “The dashed line corresponds to approximation given in [12], the dotted line to our polynomial approximation and the solid line to exact result.”
On the Connectivity of Ad Hoc Networks (2004, neutral): “It can be described by [7]”
Energy provisioning in wireless rechargeable sensor networks (2011, background): “There has been much work on the derivation of node distribution for certain well known mobility models such as random way point (RWP) [19].”
Gossip-based ad hoc routing (2002, background): “[2] show that, with this mobility model, the distribution of nodes does not remain uniform.”
Stochastic Properties of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model (2004, positive): “Finally, the paper [5], by Bettstetter, Resta, and Santi derives in an analytical manner an almost exact equation for the spatial node distribution of the RWP model in a square area.”
Performance analysis of mobility-assisted routing (2006, background): “(3) A better, yet more convoluted approximation can be found in [7]; • The expected direction chosen at the beginning of an epoch is not uniform, but has a strong bias towards the center; Specifically, if θ is the angle measured from the direction pointing to the center of the network (θ = 0), then ”
Stationary distributions for the random waypoint mobility model (2004, background): “In [10], a close approximation to hðx; yÞ is given and it is suggested that initial locations be sampled from this approximation.”