Modeling Human Mobility and its Applications in Routing in Delay-Tolerant Networks: a Short Survey

TL;DR

This paper surveys various techniques for modeling human mobility patterns and their application in routing within delay-tolerant networks, highlighting the importance of understanding human movement for network design.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of modeling techniques for human mobility and discusses their application in delay-tolerant network routing, emphasizing recent advances.

Findings

Various models capture human co-location patterns

Predictive models improve routing efficiency

Mobility modeling enhances delay-tolerant network performance

Abstract

Human mobility patterns are complex and distinct from one person to another. Nevertheless, motivated by tremendous potential benefits of modeling such patterns in enabling new mobile services and technologies, researchers have attempted to capture salient characteristics of human mobility. In this short survey paper, we review some of the major techniques for modeling humans' co-location, as well as predicting human location and trajectory. Further, we review one of the most important application areas of such models, namely, routing in delay-tolerant networks.