Clustered Mobility Model for Scale-Free Wireless Networks

— Recently, researchers have discovered that many of social, natural and biological networks are characterized by scale-free power-law connectivity distribution and a few densely populated nodes, known as hubs. We envision that wireless communication or sensor networks are directly deployed over such real-world networks to facilitate communication among participating entities. Here nodes move in such a way that they exhibit scale-free connectivity distribution at any instance, which cannot be modeled by most of the prior mobility models such as random waypoint (RWP) mobility model. This paper proposes clustered mobility model (CMM), which facilitates in forming hubs in a network satisfying the scale-free property. We call this a scale-free wireless network (SFWN). In CMM, it is possible to control the degree of node concentration or non-homogeneity to easily assess the strengths and weaknesses of the scale-free phenomena. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there has been no suc...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: LCN
• Authors: Sunho Lim, Chansu Yu, Chita R. Das
• Keywords: LCN 2006, Mobility Models, Scale-free Power-law Connectivity, Scale-free Wireless Network