Stochastic properties of the random waypoint mobility model

Wireless Networks

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 555-567

  Bettstetter, Christian ^a   Hartenstein, Hannes ^b   Pérez Costa, Xavier ^c  

^a DOCOMO EURO LABS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^c NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analysis of mobile networks; Mobility modeling; Modeling and simulation; Random waypoint model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERFORMANCE; TERMINOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF MOBILE NETWORKS; MOBILITY MODELING; MODELING AND SIMULATION; RANDOM WAYPOINT MODEL;

STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 3042778324     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WINE.0000036458.88990.e5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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