Mobility models

HCMM: Modelling spatial and temporal properties of human mobility driven by users' social relationships

In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the mobility of the network users can heavily affect the performance of networking protocols because it causes sudden connectivity changes and topological variations. This is even more important in recent promising …

The sociable traveller: Human travelling patterns in social-based mobility

Understanding how humans move is a key factor for the design and evaluation of networking protocols and mobility management solutions in mobile networks. This is particularly true for mobile scenarios in which conventional single-hop access to the …

User-centric mobility models for opportunistic networking

In this chapter we survey the most recent proposals for modelling user mobility in mobile pervasive networks, and specifically in opportunistic networks. We identify two main families of models that have been proposed. The first modelling approach is …