Mobility Models for Next Generation Wireless Networks

List of Figures

1.1	A typical WLAN architecture
1.2	A typical WLAN mesh network architecture
1.3	A typical ad hoc network architecture
1.4	A typical vehicular network architecture
1.5	A typical wireless sensor network architecture
1.6	A typical opportunistic network architecture
2.1	Geometrical interpretation of path loss and large-scale fading
2.2	Compound effect of path loss, shadowing, and small-scale fading as a function of the separation distance between transmitter and receiver (courtesy of Konstantinos Mammasis)
2.3	A wireless network (top) and the corresponding communication graph (bottom). Transmission range of nodes is represented by a shaded disk
2.4	A wireless network (top) and the corresponding communication graph (bottom) obtained with a cost-based model
3.1	A cellular network architecture
3.2	Node mobility in a cellular network
3.3	Portion of a cellular network (left) and portion of the corresponding Markov chain modeling node mobility between cells (right)
3.4	The CRAWDAD website
4.1	Two random walks on the integer number line starting at 0
4.2	A random walk on the two-dimensional, unbounded grid starting at (0,0) (point in bold)
4.3	An example of two-dimensional Brownian motion
4.4	An example of two-dimensional Lévy flight
5.1	An example of two-dimensional RWP mobility in the unit square
5.2	The derivation of the mobility component of distribution fRWP
5.3	Derivation of
5.4	The mobility component of the RWP model spatial ...