This paper investigates the affect of pathloss and mobility in an urban environment on MANETs. Specifically, this investigation employs mobility and pathloss that resembles the mobility of pedestrians and pathloss in urban environments. We study the behavior of MANETs on a university campus and in the Paddington area of London England. The model utilizes ray tracing to provide realistic radio w...

Among the realistic ingredients to be considered in the computational modeling of infectious diseases, human mobility represents a crucial challenge both on the theoretical side and in view of the limited availability of empirical data. To study the interplay between short-scale commuting flows and long-range airline traffic in shaping the spatiotemporal pattern of a global epidemic we (i) anal...

Increasingly, lab evaluations of mobile applications are incorporating mobility. The inclusion of mobility alone, however, is insufficient to generate a realistic evaluation context since real-life users will typically be required to monitor their environment while moving through it. While field evaluations represent a more realistic evaluation context, such evaluations pose difficulties, inclu...

Mobility has become a basic premise of network communications, thereby requiring a native integration into 5G networks. Despite the numerous efforts to propose and to standardize effective mobility management models for IP, the result is a complex, poorly flexible set of mechanisms. The natural support for mobility offered by ICN (Information Centric Networking), makes it a good candidate to de...

Please cite this article in press as: C. Boldrini, A relationships, Comput. Commun. (2010), doi:10 In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs), the mobility of the network users can heavily affect the performance of networking protocols because it causes sudden connectivity changes and topological variations. This is even more important in recent promising paradigms proposed in this field, such as oppor...

We address the features channel characterization and performance evaluation for wireless body-area networks (WBANs) in medical applications during a walk scenario using optical transmission. More specifically, we focus on extra-WBAN uplink communication between central coordinator node (CN) placed patient’s body an access point (AP) typical hospital room. To characterize channel, use Monte Carl...

Portable computing devices have transformed mobility into a serious concern to network researchers. Existing mobility measurement data have been very useful to the community, but achieve their limitations because they apply only to specific contexts (e.g. university campuses and conference venues). This paper advocates using Wi-Fi sniffing to study mobility in other environments. This approach ...