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SIMPS: USING SOCIOLOGY FOR PERSONAL MOBILITY

INTRODUCTION

SIMPS: USING SOCIOLOGY FOR PERSONAL MOBILITY
Mobility modeling aims at describing in the most accurate and simplest way the motion of mobile entities. They are fundamental tools in a large variety of domains, such as physics, biology, sociology, networking, electronic gaming, and many others. As of now, there is a growing number of mobility models used in the design and analysis of communication systems, but how many of them fully represent the aspects characterizing the mobility of human beings. This is a fundamental issue, since in many situations the mobility of communicating and sensing equipments follows human mobility. The characteristic of that approach is very important, since we consider mobility by its causes. While we will study the characteristics outputted by our mobility proposal throughout its parameter set, and compare them with characteristics recorded from mobility traces, our goal here is clearly not to gauge the consequences of our work in terms of routing performance (consequences).