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

@article{walsh:call, abstract = {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 environment in which the mobile network will be deployed. Thus, using realistic mobility models for simulation environments are preferred to synthetic models. Historically, however, unrealistic movement models have been mostly used due to their simplicity and mathematical tractability. Recently, a few mobility models have been derived from real user traces; these models, however, have not yet been adopted by the mobile research community for evaluation of protocol performance. We have implemented a realistic university campus-based pedestrian mobility model (RealMobGen) for use with the NS-2 network simulator. We offer RealMobGen to anyone interested.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Walsh, Chris and Doci, Arta and Camp, Tracy}, citeulike-article-id = {5807958}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1374512.1374523}, doi = {10.1145/1374512.1374523}, journal = {ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review}, keywords = {dartmouth\_campus, experiments, measurement, mobility, modelling, wireless}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {34--36}, posted-at = {2009-09-20 22:30:36}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A call to arms: it's time for {REAL} mobility models}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1374512.1374523}, volume = {12}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - walsh:call L3 - citeulike-article-id:5807958 N2 - 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 environment in which the mobile network will be deployed. Thus, using realistic mobility models for simulation environments are preferred to synthetic models. Historically, however, unrealistic movement models have been mostly used due to their simplicity and mathematical tractability. Recently, a few mobility models have been derived from real user traces; these models, however, have not yet been adopted by the mobile research community for evaluation of protocol performance. We have implemented a realistic university campus-based pedestrian mobility model (RealMobGen) for use with the NS-2 network simulator. We offer RealMobGen to anyone interested. IS - 1 JF - ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 36 TI - A call to arms: it's time for {REAL} mobility models PB - ACM VL - 12 SP - 34 KW - dartmouth_campus KW - experiments KW - measurement KW - mobility KW - modelling KW - wireless AU - Walsh, Chris AU - Doci, Arta AU - Camp, Tracy PY - 2008/January// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1374512.1374523 ER -