Mo3: A Modular Mobility Model for Future Generation Mobile Wireless Networks

Mobility modeling in 5G and beyond 5G must address typical features such as time-varying correlation between mobility patterns of different nodes, and their variation ranging from macro-mobility (kilometer range) to micro-mobility (sub-meter range). Current models have strong limitations in doing so: the widely used reference-based models, such as the Reference Point Group Mobility (RPGM), lack flexibility and accuracy, while the more sophisticated rule-based (i.e. behavioral) models are complex to set-up and tune. This paper introduces a new rule-based Modular Mobility Model, named Mo
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, that provides accuracy and flexibility on par with behavioral models, while preserving the intuitiveness of the reference-based approach, and is based on five rules: 1) Individual Mobility, 2) Correlated Mobility, 3) Collision Avoidance, 4) Obstacle Avoidance and 5) Upper Bounds Enforcement. Mo
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avoids introducing acceleration vectors to define rules, as behavioral models do, and this significantly reduces complexity. Rules are mapped one-to-one onto five modules, that can be independently enabled or replaced. Comparison of time-correlation features obtained with Mo
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vs. reference-based models, and in particular RPGM, in pure micro-mobility and mixed macro-mobility / micro-mobility scenarios, shows that Mo
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and RPGM generate mobility patterns with similar topological properties (intra-group and inter-group distances), but that Mo
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preserves a spatial correlation that is lost in RPGM - at no price in terms of complexity - making it suitable for adoption in 5G and beyond 5G.