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Characterizing Mobility and Network Usage in a Corporate Wireless Local-Area Network

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Characterizing Mobility and Network Usage in a Corporate Wireless Local-Area Network
Wireless local-area networks are becoming increasingly popular. They are commonplace on university campuses and inside corporations, and they have started to appear in public areas [17]. It is thus becoming increasingly important to understand user mobility patterns and network usage characteristics on wireless networks. Such an understanding would guide the design of applications geared toward mobile environments (e.g., pervasive computing applications), would help improve simulation tools by providing a more representative workload and better user mobility models, and could result in a more effective deployment of wireless network components. Several studies have recently been performed on wireless university campus networks and public networks. In this paper, we complement previous research by presenting results from a four week trace collected in a large corporate environment. We study user mobility patterns and introduce new metrics to model user mobility. We also analyze user an...
Magdalena Balazinska, Paul Castro
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Type Conference
Year 2003
Where MOBISYS
Authors Magdalena Balazinska, Paul Castro
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