Mobility Models for Next Generation Wireless Networks
Paolo Santi · 2012
In this chapter, the author focuses on models of wireless node mobility, starting with motivating their importance within the network performance evaluation process. Then, he extensively discusses the reasons why the existing knowhow on mobility models for cellular networks cannot be applied (at least, directly) to model mobility in next generation wireless networks. Next, a taxonomy of existing mobility models for next generation wireless networks based on different criteria is introduced. Finally, he presents the Community Resource for Archiving Data At Dartmouth (CRAWDAD) resource for archiving mobility traces derived from real-world experiments and testbeds. Controlled Vocabulary Terms cellular networks; next generation networking; wireless networks