Capacity and delay tradeoff in correlated hybrid Ad-Hoc networks

Network throughput and packet delay are both important performance metrics in Ad-Hoc networks. While uncorrelated mobility has been proved to be able to increase the network capacity at the cost of delay, the influence of correlated mobility on network performance has not been well studied. In correlated mobility model, nodes in the same group are constrained to lie in a disc area, whose center moves uniformly according to the i.i.d. model; however, it is still an open issue how to evaluate the performance of capacity and delay tradeoff in hybrid Ad-Hoc networks. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework to examine such issue when relay nodes are under correlated mobility and static nodes are acting as transmitters and receivers. Simulation results shows that our algorithm provides better throughput delay tradeoff than i.i.d. model.