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START: Status and region aware taxi mobility model for urban vehicular networks

  • Haiquan Wang
  • , Wenjing Yang
  • , Jingtao Zhang
  • , Jiejie Zhao
  • , Yu Wang
  • Beijing Key Laboratory of Network Technology
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

The mobility model in urban vehicular networks is one of the most important factors that impacts the evaluation of any vehicular networking protocols via simulations. However, to obtain a realistic mobility model in the dynamic urban environment is very challenging. Recently, several studies extract mobility models from large-scale real data sets (mostly taxi GPS data) without consideration of the statuses of taxi. In this paper, we discover two simple observations related to the taxi status via mining of real taxi traces: (1) the behavior of taxi will be influenced by the statuses, and (2) the macroscopic movement is related with different geographic features in corresponding status. Based on these two observations, a novel taxi mobility model (START) is proposed with respect to taxi status and geographic region. The simulation results illustrate that proposed mobility model has a good approximation with reality in trace samples, distribution of nodes and the contact characteristics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages594-599
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781467371315
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Aug 2015
EventIEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Duration: 26 Apr 20151 May 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
Volume2015-August
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2015
Country/TerritoryHong Kong SAR
CityHong Kong
Period26/04/151/05/15

Keywords

  • Mobility model
  • taxi traces
  • urban vehicular networks

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