Re: mobility model

[Ya Xu <yaxu@ISI.EDU>]

Hi,

Nodes in the current ns (2.1b5) move according to a model which
is called "random waypoint". Please see David Johnson etc. paper for
detail description.

thanks

Ya

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Christian [iso-8859-1] J�nsson FOA 72 wrote:

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> Hello all.
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> I'd like to know what SUN's model is and how it's available. If you're looking 
> for a mobility model based on pseudo stochastic methods, there's one the BN 
> made for the GloMo project. I'm not sure of it's availability, but I've got it 
> and plan to test it under ns. How, I don't know yet...
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> I attach the mail I got, back in '97, from BBN containing the source.
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> S.A.Janssen@research.kpn.com said:
> > Hi,
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> > does anyone have any information for me regarding mobility models?. I'd like
> > to use it in NS. I've looked at the CMU extensions but I got the idea that
> > the ad-hockey tool can be used to generate a trace file from a path I can
> > set up manually. What I'm looking for is some kind of model in which the
> > mobiles move at random, according to a Markov model, ...., whatever there
> > is.
> > I've seen SUN's mobility model too but it doesn't seem to be based on actual
> > traffic. The best would be some kind of model created from data that has
> > been obtained from actual traffic.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance, Sjoerd Janssen
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