Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04) Analysis of Wide Area User Mobility Patterns Lake District National Park, United Kingdom December 02-December 03 ISBN: 0-7695-2258-0
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSA.2004.6
In this paper, we present an analysis of user behavior and mobility patterns based on a trace of accesses to a department e-mail server. In contrast to previous studies, we consider a single service and examine how a user community connects to it while moving across a variety of different service providers? wireless and wired networks. By measuring an e-mail service, one that users access often, we were able to monitor a large number of sessions originating from a diverse set of locations. Our contributions include: a unique approach to extracting user mobility information from traces of client application interactions; a novel approach to modeling user behavior and mobility; and a demonstration of how such models can be used to generate synthetic traces. Overall, although some users are highly mobile, we find most users have a low degree of mobility — 70% of users access their e-mail from 2 or fewer unique locations. We also find that our observed session times are longer than those reported by previous mobility studies in wireless networks.
Citation:
Kevin D. Simler, Steven E. Czerwinski, Anthony D. Joseph, "Analysis of Wide Area User Mobility Patterns," wmcsa, pp.30-40, Sixth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'04), 2004 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||