Mobility Modeling for Vehicular Communication Networks (eBook)

Preface 8
Acknowledgments 10
Contents 12
Acronyms 14
Nomenclature 16
1 Introduction 21
1.1 Vehicular ad hoc Networks (VANETs) 21
1.2 Vehicle Mobility Models 22
1.2.1 Vehicle Mobility Models for VANETs 24
1.3 Vehicle Mobility Effect on VANETs 26
1.3.1 Communication Link Duration 26
1.3.2 Vehicle's Neighborhood 27
1.4 Brief Objectives and Outline 28
References 29
2 System Model 31
2.1 VANET Scenario 31
2.2 Node Mobility 33
2.2.1 Mesoscopic Mobility Model 33
References 35
3 Microscopic Vehicle Mobility Model 36
3.1 Individual Mobility Model 36
3.1.1 Model Validation 38
3.1.1.1 VISSIM Simulation Data 38
3.1.1.2 NGSIM Empirical Data 39
3.2 Group Mobility Model 40
3.2.1 Theorem 3.1: Lumped Group Mobility Model 43
3.2.1.1 Proof of Theorem 3.1 ch3:abboudTVT,ch3:abboud2014 43
3.2.2 Corollary 3.1: Stationary Distribution of Lumped Group Mobility Model 44
3.2.2.1 Proof of Corollary 3.1 ch3:abboudTVT,ch3:abboud2014 45
3.2.3 Corollary 3.2: Bounded Absorbing Lumped State Space 46
3.2.3.1 Proof of Corollary 3.2 ch3:abboudTVT,ch3:abboud2014 46
3.2.4 Group Mobility Model Scalability 47
3.3 Summary 47
References 48
4 Spatiotemporal Network Topology Analysis 50
4.1 Communication Link Lifetime 50
4.1.1 Consecutive Link-Edge Nodes 52
4.1.2 Non-consecutive Link-Edge Nodes 53
4.1.2.1 Time to the First Link Breakage 54
4.1.2.2 Time Period Between Successive Changes in Link-State 55
4.2 Temporal Variations in Vehicle's One-Hop Neighborhood 58
4.2.1 Time to the First Change in Vehicle'S One-Hop Neighborhood 59
4.2.2 Time Period Between Successive Changes in Vehicle'S One-Hop Neighborhood 61
4.3 Temporal Variations in Vehicle'S Two-Hop Neighborhood 62
4.3.1 Node Interarrival Time During an Overlapping/Non-overlapping Period 64
4.3.2 Steady-State Distributions of the Numbers of Common VNs and Uncovered Nodes 66
4.4 Results and Discussion 68
4.5 Summary 78
References 79
5 Conclusions and Future Work 80
5.1 Conclusions 80
5.2 Future Research Direction 82
References 82