Stationary Distributions for the Random Waypoint Mobility Model

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 99-108

  Navidi, William ^a   Camp, Tracy ^a  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobility models; Random waypoint mobility model; Simulation of mobile ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY MODELS; RANDOM WAYPOINT MODEL; SIMULATION OF MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIMULATORS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 2342528393     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2004.1261820     Document Type: Article

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