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Towards an Integrated Mobility Simulation for Communications Research

Authors:
Kamill Panitzek
Pascal Weisenburger
Immanuel Schweizer
Max Mühlhäuser

Keywords: mobility model; behavior-based; software agents; simulation; integration; disaster recovery

Abstract:
Mobile devices and new communication technologies gain ever more importance. Evaluating such technologies for critical domains, like disaster recovery, is a difficult task and is usually done by using simulations. Until today, research focused on the impact of mobility patterns on the investigated communication technology. We argue that the influence of the communication technology on the mobility patterns is also important to produce realistic simulations and meaningful results. In this paper, we present our agent-based mobility model and our simulation framework. This framework can be connected to a network simulator to execute mobility and network simulations in parallel, thus, influencing each other. The evaluation of our mobility model with real world experts in the field of disaster recovery indicated our approach to be accurate and also revealed potential for improvements.

Pages: 24 to 29

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: November 17, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-313-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 17, 2013 to November 21, 2013