Random waypoint considered harmful

By Jungkeun Yoon, M. Liu, Brian D. Noble. IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty-second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37428), 2003

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The message delay in mobile ad hoc networks (2005, background): “Also, vmin needs to be strictly positive to ensure that the average speed over time does not go to zero [18].”
Inter-vehicle communication systems: a survey (2008, methodology): “For MANETs, the random waypoint model (RWP) is by far the most popular mobility model [127].”
Connectivity-Aware Routing (CAR) in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (2007, background): “Previous studies of ad hoc network protocols show that performance depends heavily on the chosen mobility model [5]–[8] and that a uniform distribution of nodes in a rectangular area is clearly favorable for graph traversal and shortest path algorithms [5], [9], [10].”
Topology control in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks (2005, background): “2004), and that the average nodal speed, defined as the average of the node velocities at a given instant of time, decreases over time (Yoon et al. 2003).”
A SURVEY OF MOBILITY MODELS in Wireless Adhoc Networks (2004, background): “In Ref.”
A survey and comparative study of simulators for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) (2011, background): “For MANETs, the random waypoint model (RWP) is by far the most popular mobility model [4], but in a vehicular network, nodes (vehicles) can only move along streets, prompting the need for a road model.”
Spatial node distribution of the random waypoint mobility model with applications (2006, background): “in [7] and later by others in [8] and [9].”
BonnMotion: a mobility scenario generation and analysis tool (2010, background): “In [56] it is shown that the average velocity is decreasing over simulation time if vmin = 0.”
An evaluation of inter-vehicle ad hoc networks based on realistic vehicular traces (2006, background): “The literature shows that the results of performance studies of ad hoc network depend heavily on the chosen mobility model [8, 4, 43].”
Mobility models for ad hoc network simulation (2004, methodology): “This phenomenon was first pointed out by [1].”
Bidirectionally Coupled Network and Road Traffic Simulation for Improved IVC Analysis (2011, methodology): “The impact of mobility models on VANET simulation results, as well as the inadequacy of the mobility models usually adopted in MANET simulations [5], is well-documented in the literature [6], [7].”
The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (2003, methodology): “Only recently have some papers appeared that study its stochastic properties and warn researchers of pitfalls that might occur when using this model (see [2], [5], [7], [8], [10], [28], [31], [34]).”
Performance analysis of mobility-assisted routing (2006, neutral): “node distribution [6], convergence [8,41], etc.”
Mobile ad hoc networking: imperatives and challenges (2003, background): “[288] Jungkeun Yoon, Mingyan Liu, Brian Noble, Random waypoint considered harmful, in: Proceedings of INFO-”
Message ferry route design for sparse ad hoc networks with mobile nodes (2006, methodology): “We choose a large vmin as otherwise RWP model fails to provide a steady-state in terms of average speed [28].”