On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
The Node Distribution of the Random Waypoint Mobility Model for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
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
Structure and evolution of online social networks
Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Modeling vanet deployment in urban settings
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
A socio-aware overlay for publish/subscribe communication in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Structure and Network in the YouTube Core
HICSS '08 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Publish/subscribe architecture for mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Bubble rap: social-based forwarding in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Unveiling facebook: a measurement study of social network based applications
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Mobile healthcare applications: a study of access control
Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust: Bridge the Gap Between PST Technologies and Business Services
Towards connectivity improvement in VANETs using bypass links
CEC'09 Proceedings of the Eleventh conference on Congress on Evolutionary Computation
A link-reliability-based approach to providing QoS support for VANETs
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
On the design of self-organized cellular wireless networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
An overlay approach for optimising small-world properties in VANETs
EvoApplications'13 Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation
Joint routing and location-based service in VANETs
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are wireless networks where nodes' exchange of messages does not rely on any previously deployed infrastructure. Portable devices that are capable of wireless communication have become extremely popular making possible the establishment of wide ubiquitous networks. Users connected to such networks can access the provided services anywhere and anytime. Nevertheless, this architecture suffers from a highly unstable topology since links between nodes break constantly due to users' movement. Mobility has a paramount influence on the network topology. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to understand the impact of mobility in MANETs. In this work, we perform a thorough analysis on how mobility shape the behavior of MANETs. Our range of observation varies from general MANETs composed of walking users to a next generation of MANETs formed by vehicles moving either in a city environment or in a highway scenario, namely Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Our analyses are performed observing the networks through the perspective of complex networks. We were able to identify underlying characteristics of these networks and showed how these observations can be used to improve the performance of MANETs.