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
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness
Towards realistic mobility models for mobile ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the 9th 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
Designing a context-aware middleware for asynchronous communication in mobile ad hoc environments
DSM '04 Proceedings of the 1st international doctoral symposium on Middleware
MSWiM '05 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
MSWiM '05 Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
EMMA: Epidemic Messaging Middleware for Ad hoc networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
A community based mobility model for ad hoc network research
REALMAN '06 Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Multi-hop ad hoc networks: from theory to reality
Building realistic mobility models from coarse-grained traces
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
The QoS-RWP mobility and user behavior model for public area wireless networks
Proceedings of the 9th ACM international symposium on Modeling analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
An Agenda Based Mobility Model21
ANSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation
Analysis of simple counting protocols for delay-tolerant networks
Proceedings of the second ACM workshop on Challenged networks
Modelling mobility in disaster area scenarios
Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, analysis, and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Link longevity and mobility in self-dependent multi-hop mobile environments
International Journal of Mobile Communications
MOMOSE: a mobility model simulation environment for mobile wireless ad-hoc networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Simulation tools and techniques for communications, networks and systems & workshops
Urban pedestrian mobility for mobile wireless network simulation
Ad Hoc Networks
A new group mobility model for mobile adhoc network based on unified relationship matrix
WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMMUNICATIONS
Frugal Routing on Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
SAGT '08 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory
Mobi-watchdog: you can steal, but you can't run!
Proceedings of the second ACM conference on Wireless network security
SIMPS: using sociology for personal mobility
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Modeling and Evaluation of Rescue Operations Using Mobile Communication Devices
PADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ACM/IEEE/SCS 23rd Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation
Modeling mobility in disaster area scenarios
Performance Evaluation
Agenda driven mobility modelling
International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
Influence of Social Networks on Recovering Large Scale Distributed Systems
PRIMA '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems
UrbiSim: a framework for simulation of ad hoc networks in realistic urban environment
GIIS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Global Information Infrastructure Symposium
Human mobility in shopping mall environments
MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking
BonnMotion: a mobility scenario generation and analysis tool
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Know thy neighbor: towards optimal mapping of contacts to social graphs for DTN routing
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
W-NINE: a two-stage emulation platform for mobile and wireless systems
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on simulators and experimental testbeds design and development for wireless networks
Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet
Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet
Trace-based mobility modeling for multi-hop wireless networks
Computer Communications
Model-based object tracking in wireless sensor networks
Wireless Networks
The impact of mobility on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks through the perspective of complex networks
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Group based routing in disconnected ad hoc networks
HiPC'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on High Performance Computing
A classification and performance comparison of mobility models for ad hoc networks
ADHOC-NOW'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks
An efficient social network-mobility model for MANETs
IWDC'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Distributed Computing
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Almost all work on mobile ad hoc networks relies on simulations, which, in turn, rely on realistic movement models for their credibility. Since there is a total absence of realistic data in the public domain, synthetic models for movement pattern generation must be used and the most widely used models are currently very simplistic, the focus being ease of implementation rather than soundness of foundation. Whilst it would be preferable to have models that better reflect the movement of real users, it is currently impossible to validate any movement model against real data. However, it is lazy to conclude from this that all models are equally likely to be invalid so any will do.We note that movement is strongly affected by the needs of humans to socialise in one form or another. Fortunately, humans are known to associate in particular ways that can be mathematically modelled, and that are likely to bias their movement patterns. Thus, we propose a new mobility model that is founded on social network theory, because this has empirically been shown to be useful as a means of describing human relationships. In particular, the model allows collections of hosts to be grouped together in a way that is based on social relationships among the individuals. This grouping is only then mapped to a topographical space, with topography biased by the strength of social tie.We discuss the implementation of this mobility model and we evaluate emergent properties of the generated networks. In particular, we show that grouping mechanism strongly influences the probability distribution of the average degree (i.e., the average number of neighbours of a host) in the simulated network.