This paper presents small world in motion (SWIM), a new mobility model for ad-hoc networking. SWIM is relatively simple, is easily tuned by setting just a few parameters, and generates traces that look real--synthetic traces have the same statistical properties of real traces. SWIM shows experimentally and theoretically the presence of the power law and exponential decay dichotomy of inter-contact time, and, most importantly, our experiments show that it can predict very accurately the performance of forwarding protocols.
@article{arxiv.0809.2730,
title = {SWIM: A Simple Model to Generate Small Mobile Worlds},
author = {Alessandro Mei and Julinda Stefa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.2730},
year = {2009}
}
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Accepted for publication in IEEE INFOCOM 09, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009