A survey of social based mobility models for ad hoc networks

Abstract

The main step of the simulation, which is modeling, should be carried out carefully to produce results which fit best to real life scenarios. One of the main parts of simulations is modeling the mobility of objects. Mobile wireless nodes represent wireless devices carried by humans in most of the cases, hence the mobility pattern strongly depends on human movements which are influenced by human decisions and social behaviors. Social based mobility modeling can be considered as the application of social network theory on the field of mobility modeling. This study aims to present a structured view of the previous work on this field and to state the open issues to steer any future work.