The analysis of such mobility patterns and the understanding of how mobile nodes interact play a critical role when designing new routing protocols for DTNs.
Several works have shown that mobile phone data is useful to study human mobility patterns and social interactions (see Blondel et al. [39] for a comprehensive review of recent advances in studies using mobile phone datasets).
They also showed that their proposed scheme can perform quite well under different mobility patterns and be resilient to errors/uncertainty in prediction of mobile user location-time workflows [15].
By establishing a quantitative relation between human mobility patterns and demographics, Di has laid a theoretical foundation to use individual mobile traces, which contain a sequence of places people visit, to estimate travel demand.
Belik, V., Geisel, T. & Brockmann, D. Natural human mobility patterns and spatial spread of infectious diseases.
They exhibit different mobility patterns and hardware constraints as memory, battery and processing power.
The effects of the mobility patterns and traffic parameters on the designed LU area shape are investigated.
The resulting message delivery rate depends both on the users' mobility patterns and the message load in the network.
It also allows considering other relevant aspects to ad hoc networks, like mobility patterns and traffic generation patterns.
To do so, we have built Pleiades, an extensible event driven simulator that is easily congurable to arbitrary geographies, networks, calling and mobility patterns, and data management schemes.
Finally, accelerometer data could be used broadly to quantify physical mobility patterns and metabolic expenditure in a range of patients, and more targeted uses of these data could focus on quantifying tremors in patients suffering from involuntary muscle contractions.
