Title
On the Spatiotemporal Traffic Variation in Vehicle Mobility Modeling
Abstract
Several studies have shown the importance of realistic micromobility and macromobility modeling in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). At the macroscopic level, most researchers focus on a detailed and accurate description of road topology. However, a key factor often overlooked is a spatiotemporal configuration of vehicular traffic. This factor greatly influences network topology and topology variations. Indeed, vehicle distribution has high spatial and temporal diversity that depends on the time of the day and place attraction. This diversity impacts the quality of radio links and, thus, network topology. In this paper, we propose a new mobility model for vehicular networks in urban and suburban environments. To reproduce realistic network topology and topological changes, the model uses real static and dynamic data on the environment. The data concern particularly the topographic and socioeconomic characteristics of infrastructures and the spatiotemporal population distribution. We validate our model by comparing the simulation results with real data derived from individual displacement survey. We also present statistics on network topology, which show the interest of taking into account the spatiotemporal mobility variation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TVT.2014.2323182
IEEE T. Vehicular Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
statistics,network topology,sociology,data models,topology
Population,Data modeling,Computer science,Topographic map,Computer network,Mobility model,Network topology,Dynamic data,Wireless ad hoc network,Vehicular ad hoc network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
64
2
0018-9545
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.37
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kahina Ait Ali152.52
Oumaya Baala25911.09
Alexandre Caminada310723.61