A delay-tolerant network architecture for challenged internets
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Graph-Based Mobility Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulation
SS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium
Routing in a delay tolerant network
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Mobility Modeling of Outdoor Scenarios for MANETs
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
Weighted waypoint mobility model and its impact on ad hoc networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Pocket switched networks and human mobility in conference environments
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Delay-tolerant networking
Activity-based user modeling in wireless networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
An Agenda Based Mobility Model21
ANSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation
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
Social network analysis for routing in disconnected delay-tolerant MANETs
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Characterizing pairwise inter-contact patterns in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Autonomic computing and communication systems
Bubble rap: social-based forwarding in delay tolerant networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGMOBILE workshop on Mobility models
Narrowcasting: an empirical performance evaluation study
Proceedings of the third ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Realistic mobility simulation of urban mesh networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Superdiffusive Behavior of Mobile Nodes and Its Impact on Routing Protocol Performance
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
An analysis of human mobility using real traces
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Pervasive Games: Theory and Design
Pervasive Games: Theory and Design
WONS'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Wireless on-demand network systems and services
Planet-scale human mobility measurement
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement
Globs in the primordial soup: the emergence of connected crowds in mobile wireless networks
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
On Nodal Encounter Patterns in Wireless LAN Traces
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Supporting mobile devices with wireless LAN/MAN in large controlled environments
IEEE Communications Magazine
Opportunistic wireless communication in theme parks: a study of visitors mobility
CHANTS '11 Proceedings of the 6th ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Performance of collaborative GPS localization in pedestrian ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the third ACM international workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networks
A simple framework to simulate the mobility and activity of theme park visitors
Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference
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Ad hoc networks of wireless devices carried by entertainment park visitors can support a variety of services. In such networks, communication links between the devices sporadically appear and disappear with the mobility of visitors. The network performance strongly depends on how often they encounter each other and for how long the contact opportunities last. In this paper, we study the mobility of visitors based on GPS traces collected in two entertainment parks. We demonstrate and discuss the implications of the observed mobility on the efficiency of opportunistic data forwarding. We show how hourly changes in the number and spatial distribution of the park visitors affect the delay of a broadcast application. Our results suggest that generic mobility models commonly used in wireless research are not appropriate to study this and similar scenarios: Targeted mobility models are needed in order to realistically capture non-stationarity of the number and spatial distribution of nodes. Therefore, we developed a mobility simulator for entertainment parks that can be used to scale up the evaluation scenarios to a large number of devices. The simulator implements an activity-based mobility model, where the mobility of park visitors is driven by the activities they wish to perform in the park. The simulator is calibrated based on the GPS traces and validated on several metrics that are relevant for the performance of wireless ad hoc networks.