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rev_number: 7
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creators_name: Karamshuk, Dmytro
creators_name: Boldrini, Chiara
creators_name: Conti, Marco
creators_name: Passarella, Andrea
creators_id: dmytro.karamshuk@imtlucca.it
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title: An arrival-based framework for human mobility modeling
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: none
keywords: Aggregates, Analytical models, Communities, Humans, Mathematical model, Mobile ad hoc networks, Stochastic processes 
note: San Francisco, California, USA, June 25-28, 2012
abstract: Modeling human mobility is crucial in the performance analysis and simulation of mobile ad hoc networks, where contacts are exploited as opportunities for peer-to-peer message forwarding. The current approach to human mobility modeling has been based on continuously modifying models, trying to embed in them the newest features of mobility properties (e.g., visiting patterns to locations or inter-contact times) as they came up from trace analysis. As a consequence, typically these models are neither flexible (i.e., features of mobility cannot be changed without changing the model) nor controllable (i.e., the exact shape of mobility properties cannot be controlled directly). In order to take into account the above requirements, in this paper we propose a mobility framework whose goal is, starting from the stochastic process describing the arrival patterns of users to locations, to generate pairwise inter-contact times and aggregate inter-contact times featuring a predictable probability distribution. We validate the proposed framework by means of simulations. In addition, assuming that the arrival process of users to locations can be described by a Bernoulli process, we mathematically derive a closed form for the pairwise and aggregate inter-contact times, proving the controllability of the proposed approach in this case.
date: 2012
date_type: published
publisher: IEEE
pagerange: 1-9
pages: 9
event_title: World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on a
id_number: 10.1109/WoWMoM.2012.6263683
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-1-4673-1237-0
book_title: Proceeding of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2012 
official_url: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6263683&isnumber=6263669
citation:   Karamshuk, Dmytro and Boldrini, Chiara and Conti, Marco and Passarella, Andrea  An arrival-based framework for human mobility modeling.   In:  Proceeding of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2012.   IEEE, pp. 1-9.  ISBN 978-1-4673-1237-0      (2012)