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A Novel Vehicular Mobility Model for Wireless Networks

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In this paper a novel realistic vehicular mobility model is introduced. It captures the moving-in-groups, conscious traveling, and introduces the concept of smart traveling while following drivers’ social behavior extracted from inquiries and experimental traffic measurements. Under the model, a routing algorithm is considered. The routing algorithm minimizes the distance to a target on a step by step form, in every street crossing. This is done under a hierarchic street level structure that optimizes travel speed and quality. The mobility model was simulated and validated in a real mobility scenario using, as case study, the city of Lisbon. The correlation values (between simulated data and theoretical distributions), arrival to destination success rate and directional statistics produced satisfactory results. The model concept is perfectly generic and applicable to other locations, provided that the corresponding street database and vehicular traffic information are available. The model outputs several parameters, including sinuosity indicator and traffic load. The sinuosity indicator is a powerful parameter on the characterization of urban radio environments when mobility is used in wireless networks simulation. Vehicular traffic load analysis is also presented. It can be used in further work over wireless traffic modeling, on a street segment basis or on a AU (Analysis Unit) perspective.

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute (ISEL), Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Vieira & Manuel Vieira

  2. IT/IST, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

    Pedro Vieira, Maria Paula Queluz & António Rodrigues

  3. Municipality of Lisbon (CML), Lisbon, Portugal

    Manuel Vieira

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Vieira, P., Vieira, M., Queluz, M.P. et al. A Novel Vehicular Mobility Model for Wireless Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 43, 1689–1703 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-007-9336-6

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