We are witnessing an increasing need to accurately measure people's mobility as it has become instrumental factor for the development of innovative services in multiple domains. In this context, several ICT solutions have relied on location-based technologies such GPS, WiFi or Bluetooth track individual's movements. However, these limited by privacy restrictions data providers. paper we propose...

Nowadays, path prediction is being extensively examined for use in the context of mobile and wireless computing towards more efficient network resource management schemes. Path prediction allows the network and services to further enhance the quality of service levels that the user enjoys. In this paper we present a path prediction algorithm that exploits the machine learning algorithm of learn...

This paper presents a new Ad hoc Dynamic Source Routing (DSR) protocol based on mobility prediction, named as MDSR. The algorithm controls route discovery, route keeping and route switching according to the distance and mobility estimation of the neighbor nodes. We have implemented this protocol using a modified NS2 and studied its performance. Simulation results show that MDSR reduces the end-...

A platform for the simulation of mobility functions (e.g., protocols, and application architectures) is presented. This platform, named RMPG, is based on the assumption that real humans exhibit considerable spatial and temporal regularity in their moves. We base our simulation environment on the random way-point algorithm incorporated in the ns tool. Using the Java-based RMPG we performed a ser...

This paper presents a predictive mobility management framework with the secure context management in mobile networks. We devised the authentication method for seamless handovers that exploit the knowledge of the mobility prediction. Previous Access Router (AR) forwards the preestablished context information to the new AR in the predicted target wireless cell where MN might move in the near futu...

abstract background: one of the important factors in the prediction of family planning outcome is paying attention to women’s role in decision making concerning fertility and household affairs. with the improvement of women’s status and autonomy, their control over fertility is expected to increase. the present study aimed to investigate the association between women’s autonomy and family plann...

This paper proposes a method to predict maximum traction force for autonomous mobile robots on rough terrain in order to improve maneuverability. For predicting traction force, we utilize friction-slip curves based on modified Brixius model derived empirically in terramechanics, which is a function of mobility number Bn′ and slip ratio S. Friction-slip curves include physical characteristics of...