Smooth movement and Manhattan path based Random Waypoint mobility

  • Authors:
  • Pilu Crescenzi;Miriam Di Ianni;Andrea Marino;Donatella Merlini;Gianluca Rossi;Paola Vocca

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universití degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Universití degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universití degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universití degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Universití degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Roma, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi", Universití del Salento, Lecce, Italy

  • Venue:
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  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we study the stationary node distribution of a variation of the Random Waypoint mobility model, in which nodes move in a smooth way following one randomly chosen Manhattan path connecting two points. We provide analytical results for the spatial node stationary distribution of this model. As an application, we exploit this result to derive an upper bound on the transmission range of the nodes of a MANET, moving according to this model, that guarantees the connectivity of the communication graph with high probability.