A performance comparison of multi-hop wireless ad hoc network routing protocols
MobiCom '98 Proceedings of the 4th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
Caching strategies in on-demand routing protocols for wireless ad hoc networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
Merit: A unified framework for routing protocol assessment in mobile AD Hoc networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing
WMCSA '99 Proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computer Systems and Applications
Urban pedestrian mobility for mobile wireless network simulation
Ad Hoc Networks
An analytical review for multipath routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Towards modeling realistic mobility for performance evaluations in MANET
ADHOC-NOW'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ad-hoc, mobile and wireless networks
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A frequently used mobility model for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) simulations is the random waypoint (RWP) model. We study the properties exhibited by RWP, with a focus on the impact of the rectangular boundary and the speed of the mobile nodes moving within the boundary. The most notable result is that the average node density within the rectangle is non-uniform, contrary to what is frequently assumed. The density, in fact, does depend on the speed of the nodes. Only at high mobility speeds, and in the asymptotic sense, does the density become approximately uniform. The direct implications of the non-uniformity are studied from the point of view of network connectivity. It is found that higher mobility speed results in better connectivity. We also find that irrespective of the speed, when multiple connected components are present, they typically consist of a very large component and (potentially several) extremely small ones, alluding to similarities to the 'giant component' in random graphs. We finally comment on the impact of RWP simulations on the design and evaluation of MANET routing protocols.