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BibliographyStepanov, Illya; Marron, Pedro Jose; Rothermel, Kurt: Mobility Modeling of Outdoor Scenarios for MANETs.
In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS 38), San Diego, USA, April 2005.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
english.
N/A, April 2005.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CR-SchemaC.2.1 (Network Architecture and Design)
C.4 (Performance of Systems)
I.6.3 (Simulation and Modeling Applications)
Abstract

Mobility of users significantly impacts performance of a mobile ad-hoc network. Most existing simulation tools offer only a few random mobility models, which poorly reflect user movements in outdoor scenarios. For example, they do not consider restrictions of a spatial environment. In this paper, we describe a comprehensive and extensible approach to model mobility of users in outdoor scenarios. It reflects the main factors that influence user movement: spatial environments, user travel decisions, and user movement dynamics. We identify model parameters and show how to set them for concrete scenarios. We provide a simulation environment implementing our approach. For concrete scenarios, the environment supports automatic derivation of some parameters from user position traces.

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Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateJanuary 24, 2005
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