# A tool to estimate roaming behavior in wireless architectures

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a software tool that analyzes wireless network usage data to estimate mobile node roaming behavior, including handover timing and preferred targets, validated with realistic scenario traces.

## Contribution

It presents a novel software-based approach for inferring roaming behavior from regular usage data, including tool architecture and validation methods.

## Key findings

- High accuracy in target selection validation
- Effective inference of handover timing and targets
- Applicable to realistic wireless network scenarios

## Abstract

This paper describes a software-based tool that tracks mobile node roaming and infers the time-to-handover as well as the preferential handover target, based on behavior inference solely derived from regular usage data captured in visited wireless networks. The paper presents the tool architecture; computational background for mobility estimation; operational guidelines concerning how the tool is being used to track several aspects of roaming behavior in the context of wireless networks. Target selection accuracy is validated having as baseline traces obtained in realistic scenarios.