Towards an Integrated Mobility Simulation for Communications Research
Kamill Panitzek, Pascal Weisenburger, Immanuel Schweizer, Max Mühlhäuser · 2013
Mobile devices and new communication technologies gain ever more importance. Evaluating such technologies for critical domains, like disaster recovery, is a difficult task and is usually done by using simulations. Until today, research focused on the impact of mobility patterns on the investigated communication technology. We argue that the influence of the communication technology on the mobility patterns is also important to produce realistic simulations and meaningful results. In this paper, we present our agent-based mobility model and our simulation framework. This framework can be connected to a network simulator to execute mobility and network simulations in parallel, thus, influencing each other. The evaluation of our mobility model with real world experts in the field of disaster recovery indicated our approach to be accurate and also revealed potential for improvements.