Human mobility models are key components of various research fields including
transportation, mobile networks, disaster management, urban planning, and epidemic …

Realistic human mobility modeling is critical for accurate performance evaluation of mobile
wireless networks. Movements of visitors in theme parks affect the performance of systems …

Realistic mobility modeling is necessary for testing disaster management strategies as well
as performance of disaster–resilient networks. Evacuation of the people from a disaster area …

Most of the existing research on emergency evacuation strategies focus on city evacuation
planning that highly depends on the use of vehicles or evacuation from buildings. However …

Realistic mobility simulation is critical for evaluating the performance of communication
networks. Although various mobility models exist, they do not capture the changes in the …

Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods or tornadoes affect millions of individuals every
year. As a result, governments spend millions of dollars in emergency response allocating …

In times of natural or man-made disasters, missions such as safe evacuation of people from
the disaster areas have critical importance. Considering large areas with limited vehicle use …

Abstract Sensing-as-a-Service (S2aaS) is a cloud-inspired service model which enables
access to the Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. The IoT denotes virtually interconnected …

This dissertation presents contributions to the fields of mobility modeling, wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) with mobile sinks, and opportunistic communication in theme parks. The …

Opportunistic communication is an active research area in wireless sensor networks.
Exploiting the opportunities to communicate between devices in an unstable network is one …