Contact-based mobility metrics for delay-tolerant ad hoc networking

A Khelil, PJ Marrón, K Rothermel - 13th IEEE International …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobility plays a major role in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) since it stresses networking
tasks such as routing on one hand but aids to increase the network capacity and to …

IMPORTANT: A framework to systematically analyze the Impact of Mobility on Performance of RouTing protocols for Adhoc NeTworks

F Bai, N Sadagopan, A Helmy - IEEE INFOCOM 2003. Twenty …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a
temporary network without using any existing infrastructure. Since not many MANETs are …

Performance analysis of mobility-assisted routing

T Spyropoulos, K Psounis… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Traditionally, ad hoc networks have been viewed as a connected graph over which end-to-
end routing paths had to be established. Mobility was considered a necessary evil that …

A hybrid view of mobility in MANETs: Analytical models and simulation study

X Wu, HR Sadjadpour, JJ Garcia-Luna-Aceves… - Computer …, 2008 - Elsevier
We study the effects of node mobility on the wireless links and protocol performance in
mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). First we examine the behavior of links through an …

An analytical model to estimate path duration in MANETs

A Triviño-Cabrera, J García-de-la-Nava… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are strongly impacted by the mobility of the ad hoc
nodes. Mobility models help engineers to abstract the changes of position in network users …

The IMPORTANT framework for analyzing the Impact of Mobility on Performance Of RouTing protocols for Adhoc NeTworks

F Bai, N Sadagopan, A Helmy - Ad hoc networks, 2003 - Elsevier
A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a
temporary network without using any existing infrastructure. Since not many MANETs are …

Modeling time-variant user mobility in wireless mobile networks

WJ Hsu, T Spyropoulos, K Psounis… - IEEE INFOCOM 2007 …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realistic mobility models are important to understand the performance of routing protocols in
wireless ad hoc networks, especially when mobility-assisted routing schemes are employed …

Crossing over the bounded domain: from exponential to power-law inter-meeting time in manet

H Cai, DY Eun - Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
Inter-meeting time between mobile nodes is one of the key metrics in a Mobile Ad-hoc
Network (MANET) and central to the end-to-end delay and forwarding algorithms. It is …

A simulation study of common mobility models for opportunistic networks

M Abdulla, R Simon - 41st Annual Simulation Symposium …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Understanding mobility characteristics is important for the design and analysis of routing
schemes for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). This is especially true for mobile …

Fundamental mobility properties for realistic performance analysis of intermittently connected mobile networks

A Jindal, K Psounis - Fifth Annual IEEE International …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional mobile ad hoc routing protocols fail to deliver any data in intermittently connected
mobile ad hoc networks (ICMN's) because of the absence of complete end-to-end paths in …