A mobility and traffic generation framework for modeling and simulating ad hoc communication networks

We present a generic mobility and traffic generation framework that can be incorporated into a tool for modeling and simulating large scale ad hoc networks. Three components of this framework, namely a mobility data generator (MDG), a graph structure generator (GSG) and an occlusion modification tool (OMT) allow a variety of mobility models to be incorporated into the tool. The MDG module generates positions of transceivers at specified time instants. The GSG module constructs the graph corresponding to the ad hoc network from the mobility data provided by MDG. The OMT module modifies the connectivity of the graph produced by GSG to allow for occlusion effects. With two other modules, namely an activity data generator (ADG) which generates packet transmission activities for transceivers and a packet activity simulator (PAS) which simulates the movement and interaction of packets among the transceivers, the framework allows the modeling and simulation of ad hoc communication networks. T...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Christopher L. Barrett, Madhav V. Marathe, James P. Smith, S. S. Ravi
• Keywords: Ad Hoc, Ad Hoc Network, Applied Computing, Mobility Models, SAC 2002