A survey of mobility models for ad hoc network research

By Tracy Camp, Jeff Boleng, Vanessa Davies. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2002

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Probabilistic routing in intermittently connected networks (2003, methodology): “These nodes move according to the random way-point mobility model [19] with speeds of 0 − 20 m/s.”
SORI: a secure and objective reputation-based incentive scheme for ad-hoc networks (2004, methodology): “The random waypoint mobility model [3] is used to generate the moving direction, the speed and the pause duration of each”
A peer-to-peer spatial cloaking algorithm for anonymous location-based service (2006, methodology): “dividual random walk model that is based on “random waypoint” model [7, 8].”
Perfect simulation and stationarity of a class of mobility models (2005, background): “Thus all findings of Section VI apply, in particular, the time stationary speed is independent of location and is given by Theorem 5.”
Mobility models for ad hoc network simulation (2004, methodology): “Several variants of the random waypoint model have also been studied [12], [13], [14], [15].”
Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Visible Light Communications (2015, methodology): “In this mobility model, a user may move from its location to a new location by randomly choosing a direction between 0 and2π and a speed between 0 and2 m/s [9].”
The ONE simulator for DTN protocol evaluation (2009, background): “While these models are popular due to their simplicity, they have various known shortcomings [4].”
Pocket Switched Networks: Real-world mobility and its consequences for opportunistic forwarding (2005, neutral): “Modeling : Much of the work in DTN and MANET s concerns the modeling of mobility or location [6, 7].”
Data Offloading Techniques in Cellular Networks: A Survey (2015, critical): “While simple to implement, these models are not realistic in reproducing human behavior [133].”
On the Levy-Walk Nature of Human Mobility (2008, methodology): “Commonly used mobility models in computer networking research are random way point (RWP) [1]‐[3] or random walk models such as Brownian motion (BM) [ 4 ]‐[6] and Markovian mobility [7], [8].”
Coverage and connectivity issues in wireless sensor networks: A survey (2008, background): “However, most of the algorithms assume random movement of nodes without considering any mobility models [9].”
Data MULEs: modeling and analysis of a three-tier architecture for sparse sensor networks (2003, background): “Also as mentioned in a recent survey [17], random walk is a widely used mobility model which is useful in modeling the unpredictable motion of entities.”
Mobility models for vehicular ad hoc networks: a survey and taxonomy (2009, methodology): “2) Improved Motion Constraints: The probable first improvement to the legacy models has been provided by the BonnMotion tool [76], which implements most of the random mobility models presented in [ 64 ], including the Manhattan model, but restricts nodes’ motion constraints on a grid and provides tr”
Data MULEs: modeling a three-tier architecture for sparse sensor networks (2003, background): “Also as mentioned in a recent survey [17], random walk is a widely used mobility model which is useful in modeling the unpredictable motion of entities.”