Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
A group mobility model for ad hoc wireless networks
MSWiM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Smooth is better than sharp: a random mobility model for simulation of wireless networks
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Analysis of a campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mobility increases the capacity of ad hoc wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An ad hoc mobility model founded on social network theory
MSWiM '04 Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Modeling mobility for vehicular ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
Weighted waypoint mobility model and its impact on ad hoc networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Access and mobility of wireless PDA users
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
An integrated mobility and traffic model for vehicular wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Vehicular ad hoc networks
A community based mobility model for ad hoc network research
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Analyzing the impact of mobility in ad hoc networks
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Understanding the wireless and mobile network space: a routing-centered classification
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Power law and exponential decay of inter contact times between mobile devices
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Designing mobility models based on social network theory
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Characterizing pairwise inter-contact patterns in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems
Real-world environment models for mobile network evaluation
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Reconsidering microscopic mobility modeling for self-organizing networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
The sociable traveller: human travelling patterns in social-based mobility
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
Using social network theory for modeling human mobility
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Trace-based mobility modeling for multi-hop wireless networks
Computer Communications
Characterising aggregate inter-contact times in heterogeneous opportunistic networks
NETWORKING'11 Proceedings of the 10th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part II
On the levy-walk nature of human mobility
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Modelling inter-contact times in social pervasive networks
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Utility-based forwarding: a comparison in different mobility scenarios
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks
SLAW: self-similar least-action human walk
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A survey of adaptive services to cope with dynamics in wireless self-organizing networks
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
SAGA: socially- and geography-aware mobility modeling framework
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Ego network models for Future Internet social networking environments
Computer Communications
Discovering periodic patterns of nodal encounters in mobile networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
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Assessing mobility in a thorough fashion is a crucial step toward more efficient mobile network design. Recent research on mobility has focused on two main points: analyzing models and studying their impact on data transport. These works investigate the consequences of mobility. In this paper, instead, we focus on the causes of mobility. Starting from established research in sociology, we propose SIMPS, a mobility model of human crowds with pedestrian motion. This model defines a process called sociostation, rendered by two complimentary behaviors, namely socialize and isolate, that regulate an individual with regard to her/his own sociability level. SIMPS leads to results that agree with scaling laws observed both in small-scale and large-scale human motion. Although our model defines only two simple individual behaviors, we observe many emerging collective behaviors (group formation/splitting, path formation, and evolution).