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Multiple wireless devices jointly create and maintain ad hoc networks; their employment is favored to happen in a variety of environments with distinct topological characteristics. Diversified environmental conditions are expected to vary network performance. In fact, obstacles, buildings and/or mountains may act as either barriers, or source of noise for the radio signals. Nevertheless, most of the previous performance evaluation studies based on simulation, neglected this consideration; they used simulation models that were too simplistic, and too narrow (i.e. idealistic) in their scopes. With this paper we propose a new, complete and realistic Urban Mobility Model (UMM). It models realistically users motion, and radio signals propagation in a city-like scenario. Our aim is to study the effects of realistic network simulation on routing performance. The results prove that a realistic scenario with roads and buildings has a significant impact on routing.
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Marinoni, S., Kari, H.H. Ad hoc routing protocol's performance: a realistic simulation based study. Telecommun Syst 33, 269–289 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-006-9015-z
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