Mobility Simulation - An exploration and evaluation

Abstract: Mobility simulation is an important tool for a wide variety of cases. When provisioning computational resources for telecom networks, mobility simulation can be used as a tool for modeling user behavior. This thesis paper explores and evaluates naïve mobility simulation that builds upon models available within the RECAP project, as well as highfidelity state-of-the-art mobility simulation using SUMO. Significant qualitative trade-offs were found between these methods of simulating mobility, in terms of effort that would have to allocated towards each method, flexibility, demands on data, and realism. Using mobility traces is presented as a third option that sidesteps the issues involved in setting up a mobility simulation scenario, but introduces its own inflexibilities.