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
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network
Proceedings of the 10th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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
On profiling mobility and predicting locations of wireless users
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Millipede: a rollerblade positioning system
WiNTECH '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
MONGOOSE: a MObility sceNario Generation tOOl for Structured Environments
Proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
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The need for a network when there is no infrastructure is no longer limited to military and emergency applications; ad hoc networks can support private and public applications as well. Ad hoc networking has been a dynamically growing research area in recent years. In order to conduct informed and realistic design of forwarding policies and algorithms for mobile ad-hoc delay tolerant networks, it is important to gather appropriate real human mobility data. In this paper we study human mobility in a shopping mall environment. In such an environment, people using network devices such as mobile phones, PDA, etc. could be willing to communicate in a variety of ways, without the mediation of routing across the global Internet. The ultimate goal is to enable a multitude of users at any place in the shopping mall to access/receive appropriate local information at any time. We discuss the implications of our results and make recommendations for the design of opportunistic forwarding algorithms for shopping mall environments.