Modeling the impact of human spontaneity in mobile trajectories

Social mobility modeling has as motivation assist in developing mobile simulation environments, in order to provide better grounds for the evaluation of mobile networks. Being a new trend with roots on social network theory, these models are still unable to capture a few relevant characteristics of human movement, being one of them the impact of human spontaneity in mobile trajectories. This paper proposes a way to model such impact by providing nodes in movement with a mechanism that captures changes of target based on the notion of social attractiveness. We evaluate our proposal based on a social mobility model standalone simulator, against realistic traces.