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MobilityModels'08
First ACM SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobility Models for Networking Research
Colocated with ACM SIGMOBILE MobiHoc'08 Hong Kong 27 May 2008
Call for Papers
One
of the key issues in the evaluation of algorithms, protocols and
systems for mobile networks is modeling node mobility. Different types
of models have been proposed in the last decade, from those founded on
purely synthetic movements, such as the ones based on purely random
movements of the nodes to the ones based aiming at reproducing the
mobility patterns inside specific places like campuses or cities. In
addition, efforts to collect real traces of people movement have been
made and traces have been made available and used in simulators.
Despite these efforts, the problem of understanding and modeling
mobility, and, more specifically, human mobility remains of great
interest for the mobile ad hoc networks community, as many questions
are still unanswered and evaluation methodologies still unsatisfactory.
New insights and more refined and realistic models are still needed,
bringing together real world measurements and mathematical
characterization of node mobility. These problems are of interest to
anyone working on mobile networking, as these models are often at the
basis of the performance evaluation, comparison, and validation of new
approaches and solutions. We solicit papers on mobility models for
various wireless networks including MANETs, DTNs and vehicular
networks. Papers on mobility characterizations based on real
traces are also welcomed.
The goal of this workshop is to
bring together researchers working or interested in mobility modeling.
We wish to build a lively forum to propose and discuss recent advances
in mobility modeling both from theoretical and practical point of
views. The workshop will be opened to contributions from researchers
tackling the research problems in this area from different
perspectives, with the aim of discussing the many open issues in
movement modeling trying to identify novel solutions to be investigated
also by means of collaborations among the participants of the workshop.
We will welcome especially highly innovative and/or controversial
contributions, debunking existing results or confirming existing models
by means of new experimental results. Papers providing key mathematical
insights on open mobility modeling issues will also be highly
appreciated. We invite to submit papers in the following areas:
- Design, implementation and evaluation of synthetic and trace-based mobility models
- Validation of synthetic models using real world traces
- Mathematical characterization of human mobility
- Analysis and characterization of dynamic network topologies
- Mobility and connectivity modeling
- Influence of mobility on radio characterization
- Complex networks models for mobility modeling
- Human mobility and social networks
- Impact of mobility modeling on algorithms, protocols and systems performance
- Network measurements and mobility characterization
- Simulation tools and testbed for mobility simulation
- Systems testing based on real world mobility traces
- Mobility traces collection and data archive, including privacy issues
- Mobility characterizations of real traces
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 18 February 2008 Deadline extended: 23 February 2008
Notification to the authors: 18 March 2008
Camera ready version deadline: 24 March 2008
Workshop date: 27 May 2008
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