Understanding the role of mobility in real mobile ad-hoc networks connectivity

Route Selection and Trajectory Filling in Mobility Traces

“…Therefore, the link betweeen devices is directly related to their mobility, i.e., they will not communicate if the distance betweeen them is greater than the communication range. The lack of knowledge about the movement of such entities can impose barriers regarding the correct functioning of the network, reducing the end-user satisfaction [Cotta et al 2017, Silva et al 2015. Additionally, certain types of mobile networks are more prone to the effects of mobility, such as Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), in which each vehicle represents a node.…”

“…In Chapter 2 of the dissertation, we present a review of the literature in terms of the usage of mobility traces and the issues faced when working with them. For the former, we highlight many studies ranging from analysis about how the mobility affects the connectivity of the network in large-scale urban environments [Alipour et al 2018, Cotta et al 2017, Xia et al 2017, Hou et al 2016, to the effects of mobility to the consumption of services in the network [Lu et al 2018, Ç atay andKeskin 2017], the mobility prediction of users [Sadri et al 2017, Qiao et al 2017b, to the general analysis of human mobility for various purposes [Wang et al 2018a, Wang et al 2018b, Garcia et al 2018, Yao 2018, Diniz et al 2017, Lu et al 2017, Qiao et al 2017a, Xia et al 2017.…”