Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Modeling the sociological aspects of mobility in ad hoc networks
MSWIM '03 Proceedings of the 6th ACM international workshop on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Stochastic properties of the random waypoint mobility model
Wireless Networks
Characterizing mobility and network usage in a corporate wireless local-area network
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Reality mining: sensing complex social systems
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
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
Introduction to Probability Models, Ninth Edition
Introduction to Probability Models, Ninth Edition
Impact of Human Mobility on Opportunistic Forwarding Algorithms
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Crossing over the bounded domain: from exponential to power-law inter-meeting time in MANET
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
Distributed community detection in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of 2nd ACM/IEEE international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
The changing usage of a mature campus-wide wireless network
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Multicasting in delay tolerant networks: a social network perspective
Proceedings of the tenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
SIMPS: using sociology for personal mobility
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
The sociable traveller: human travelling patterns in social-based mobility
Proceedings of the 7th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
Opportunistic networking: data forwarding in disconnected mobile ad hoc networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Reality
IEEE Communications Magazine
Context- and social-aware middleware for opportunistic networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
From opportunistic networks to opportunistic computing
IEEE Communications Magazine
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
Leveraging node centrality and regularity for efficient routing in mobile peer-to-peer networks
Globe'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Data management in grid and peer-to-peer systems
Research challenges towards the Future Internet
Computer Communications
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
Putting contacts into context: mobility modeling beyond inter-contact times
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
On context awareness and social distance in human mobility traces
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Vicinity-based DTN characterization
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks
Predicting location using mobile phone calls
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Opportunistic social dissemination of micro-blogs
Ad Hoc Networks
Social aspects to support opportunistic networks in an academic environment
ADHOC-NOW'12 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
Predicting location using mobile phone calls
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special october issue SIGCOMM '12
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
Optimizing network performance and carbon offset through opportunistic reclustering
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
Reasoning and prediction on opportunistic networks to improve data dissemination
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers
Social-awareness in opportunistic networking
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
Predicting the change of location of mobile phone users
Proceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Mobile Geographic Information Systems
MPaaS: Mobility prediction as a service in telecom cloud
Information Systems Frontiers
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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 paradigms proposed in this field, such as opportunistic and delay tolerant networks. For this reason, it is important to understand the characteristics of the user movements in order to properly handle mobility when designing networking protocols for mobile ad hoc networks. In addition, it is highly desirable to have a mobility model that accurately reproduces the user mobility, thus enabling researchers to evaluate, either analytically or by means of simulations, their protocols under realistic mobility conditions. Recently, there have been many studies aimed to uncover the nature of human movements. In this paper, based on recent literature, we identify three main properties that are fundamental to characterize human mobility. Then, we propose a mobility model (HCMM) that integrates all these three features. To the best of our knowledge, the model proposed is the first one that combines notions about the sociality of users with spatial properties observed in real users movement patterns, i.e., their preference to spend time in a limited number of popular locations and to preferentially select short distances over longer ones. We study the HCMM both through simulation and analysis. Based on this study, we highlight some of its important temporal and spatial features, and we show that they are correctly reproduced in terms of key indicators such as jump size and inter-contact time distribution.