Title: Field architecture for traffic and mobility modelling in mobility management

Authors: Jingbo Sun; Hongbo Si; Yue Wang; Jian Yuan; Xiuming Shan; Ilsun You

Addresses: Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ' Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ' Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ' Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ' Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China ' School of Information Science, Korean Bible University, 16 Danghyun 2-gil, Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea

Abstract: Aggregate mobility modelling, studying macroscopic rule of human movement, benefits the performance of mobility management. This paper is primarily focused on establishing an architecture based on field theory, using scalar and vector field to describe traffic and mobility, respectively. On the basis of their temporal-spatial evolution, we try to discover the relationship between traffic field and mobility field. This field architecture fits for mobility management in large temporal-spatial scale, since it not only benefits qualitative analysis of traffic and mobility in the perspective of field, but also provides a theoretical foundation and insight for issues in mobile communication.

Keywords: mobility management; aggregate mobility modelling; field architecture; human movement; mobile communications; network traffic; traffic density.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2012.049070

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2012 Vol.10 No.4, pp.241 - 251

Received: 25 Jan 2011
Accepted: 25 Feb 2011
Published online: 12 Sep 2012 *

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