On the levy-walk nature of human mobility

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1597-1605

  Rhee, Injong ^a   Shin, Minsu ^a   Hong, Seongik ^a   Lee, Kyunghan ^b   Chong, Song ^b  

^a North Carolina State University

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS; INFOCOM; MOBILE NETWORKS; MOBILITY MODELING;

AD HOC NETWORKS; NETWORK ROUTING; PARKS; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 51349144836     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2007.145     Document Type: Conference Paper

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