A novel mobility model for the military operations with real traces

Mobility modeling is important to analyze the network performance of protocols since it determines the network topology inducing the network performance. In this paper, we analyze the real trace data in military operations, and design a new mobility model for military units. Based on the military training trace data of the KCTC (Korea Combat Training Center) in Hong-Cheon, Korea, we investigate the structural, spatial, and temporal characteristics. After investigations, the proposed mobility model of military units in military operations is presented. Simulation results and evaluation show that our proposed mobility model generates very similar mobility trace with real field trace of military units.