A mobility model of theme park visitors

G Solmaz, Mİ Akbaş, D Turgut - IEEE Transactions on Mobile …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Modeling visitor movement in theme parks

G Solmaz, MI Akbaş, D Turgut - 37th Annual IEEE Conference …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Realistic modeling of the movement of people in an environment is critical for evaluating the
performance of mobile wireless systems such as urban sensing or mobile sensor networks …

A simple framework to simulate the mobility and activity of theme park visitors

V Vukadinovic, F Dreier… - Proceedings of the 2011 …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human mobility often needs to be simulated in order to evaluate various designs in
transportation and urban planning. Our target application is the design and evaluation of …

Theme park mobility in disaster scenarios

G Solmaz, D Turgut - 2013 IEEE Global Communications …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a scenario-specific human mobility model (TP-D) in theme parks.
We focus on the disaster scenarios which have significant differences compared to the …

Experimental validation of the random waypoint mobility model through a real world mobility trace for large geographical areas

A Rojas, P Branch, G Armitage - … of the 8th ACM international symposium …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
User mobility models are used in simulations of mobile communications systems to study
characteristics of network performance. One of the models which is in common use is the …

Pedestrian mobility in theme park disasters

G Solmaz, D Turgut - IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Optimizing event coverage in theme parks

G Solmaz, D Turgut - Wireless networks, 2014 - Springer
Theme parks can be modeled as geographical areas where large crowds of people move
among different attractions. The operators of a theme park are interested in quickly and …

Weighted social manhattan: Modeling and performance analysis of a mobility model

L Harfouche, S Boumerdassi… - 21st Annual IEEE …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile devices are carried by people, which are characterized by their need to socialize.
The social character of mobile networks may have an influence in modeling the mobility of …

Data-driven human mobility modeling: a survey and engineering guidance for mobile networking

A Hess, KA Hummel, WN Gansterer… - ACM Computing Surveys …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Over the last decades, modeling of user mobility has become increasingly important in
mobile networking research and development. This has led to the adoption of modeling …

A call to arms: it's time for REAL mobility models

C Walsh, A Doci, T Camp - ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
The choice of a mobility model has a significant impact on the performance of mobile
network simulations. In order to accurately evaluate performance, it is important to mimic the …