Interconnected Traffic with Real Mobility Tool for Ad Hoc Networks

Due to the slow deployment of ad hoc networks, their protocol performance is mainly measured in simulation environments and uses synthetic mobility and traffic models. The synthetic mobility and traffic models are designed independently of each other and work under the assumption that wireless nodes start and remain in the simulation for a user-specified simulation time. This paper shows that mobility and traffic are interconnected. We announce the implementation of the interconnected traffic tool and show that under real mobility and interconnected traffic the performance metrics need to be re-thought. Therefore, we propose availability as a new performance metric and evaluate protocol performance under synthetic and real mobility models. We offer the code to anyone interested.