Mobility modeling in wireless networks: categorization, smooth movement, and border effects

C Bettstetter - ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
The movement pattern of mobile users plays an important role in performance analysis of
wireless computer and communication networks. In this paper, we first give an overview and …

Smooth is better than sharp: A random mobility model for simulation of wireless networks

C Bettstetter - Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on …, 2001 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents an enhanced random mobility model for simulation-based studies of
wireless networks. Our approach makes the movement trace of individual mobile stations …

Stochastic properties of the random waypoint mobility model

C Bettstetter, H Hartenstein, X Pérez-Costa - Wireless networks, 2004 - Springer
The random waypoint model is a commonly used mobility model for simulations of wireless
communication networks. By giving a formal description of this model in terms of a discrete …

Stochastic properties of the random waypoint mobility model: epoch length, direction distribution, and cell change rate

C Bettstetter, H Hartenstein, X Perez-Costa - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
The random waypoint model is a commonly used mobility model for simulations of wireless
communication networks. In this paper, we present analytical derivations of some …

Mobility models and biased sampling problem

H Xie, DJ Goodman - … of 2nd IEEE International Conference on …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In studies of cellular networks, such as the performance analysis of handoff or location
update, mobility models for mobile terminals play a very important role. Several mobility …

The node distribution of the random waypoint mobility model for wireless ad hoc networks

C Bettstetter, G Resta, P Santi - IEEE Transactions on mobile …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The random waypoint model is a commonly used mobility model in the simulation of ad hoc
networks. It is known that the spatial distribution of network nodes moving according to this …

Towards understanding the fundamentals of mobility in cellular networks

X Lin, RK Ganti, PJ Fleming… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Despite the central role of mobility in wireless networks, analytical study on its impact on
network performance is notoriously difficult. This paper aims to address this gap by …

User mobility modeling and characterization of mobility patterns

MM Zonoozi, P Dassanayake - IEEE Journal on selected areas …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A mathematical formulation is developed for systematic tracking of the random movement of
a mobile station in a cellular environment. It incorporates mobility parameters under the most …

Recent advances in mobility modeling for mobile ad hoc network research

Q Zheng, X Hong, S Ray - Proceedings of the 42nd annual Southeast …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we survey recent advances in mobility modeling for mobile ad hoc network
research. The advances include some new mobility models and analysis of older mobility …

Random waypoint mobility model in cellular networks

E Hyytiä, J Virtamo - Wireless Networks, 2007 - Springer
In this paper we study the so-called random waypoint (RWP) mobility model in the context of
cellular networks. In the RWP model the nodes, ie, mobile users, move along a zigzag path …