mobility model

In ad hoc networking research, there is a need to model the motion of mobile nodes (usually representing humans carrying wireless devices). A mobility model is an attempt to simulate this motion. There are two broad categories of mobility models, each with several existing models.

Individual

• Random Walk (a.k.a. Brownian motion) (todo)
• Random Waypoint
• Random Direction (todo)
• Gauss-Markov (todo)
• City Section (todo)

Group

• Exponential Correlated (todo)
• Column (todo)
• Nomadic Community (todo)
• Pursue (todo)

Each of the above have their own pros and cons. By far the most popular of the individual mobility models is Random Waypoint.

References

[Camp02]

T. Camp, J. Boleng, V. Davies. "A Survey of Mobility Models for Ad Hoc Network Research". http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/camp02survey.html. 2002.