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Mobility is one of the most challenging issues in mobile Ad-Hoc networks which has a significant impact on performance of network protocols. To cope with this issue, the protocol designers should be able to analyze the movement of mobile nodes in a particular wireless network. In this paper, a new framework called Mobility Analyzer has been introduced for analysis and recognition of mobility traces. At first, the Mobility Analyzer acquires some mobility traces collected by GPS or generated with mobility simulators; then it calculates some mobility metrics which represent the movement behavior of the mobile nodes; finally it attempts to classify mobility traces into particular mobility models... 

The problem of latency in data acquisition, which is specific to the case of mobile wireless sensor networks, has been introduced and investigated. In this regard, the properties of the so-called Data Acquisition Latency Error, and the way it affects the performance of the respective localization schemes in a mobile network were discussed through both theoretical analysis and simulations. Moreover, a weighted version of lateration scheme was introduced and shown to outperform the traditional one, while tracking a mobile node. This work is to the best of our knowledge the first to have addressed the aforementioned problem in mobile wireless sensor networks, and to have offered a solution for... 

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a self-configuring network without using any existing infrastructure. Since MANETs are not currently deployed on a large scale, research in this area is mostly simulation based. Among other simulation parameters, the mobility model plays a very important role in determining the protocol performance in MANET. Thus, it is essential to study and analyze various mobility models and their effect on MANET protocols. In this paper we introduce a new framework for simulation of mobility models in mobile Ad-Hoc networks. This simulator can generate mobility traces in various mobility models. The mobility traces can be... 

Mobility is one of the most challenging issues in mobile ad-hoc networks and has a significant impact on performance of network protocols. Different kinds of mobility models have been proposed to represent the movement pattern of mobile nodes in mobile ad-hoc networks. These models attempt to capture various mobility characteristics existing in real movement of mobile nodes. In this paper, a new framework called Fuzzy Mobility Analyzer has been proposed to evaluate mobility models. At first, our framework categorizes mobility models based on their mobility characteristics into five classes; subsequently it uses mobility metrics to capture the mobility and graph connectivity characteristics... 

The dynamic nature of mobile nodes in mobile adhoc networks (MANETs), causes their association and disassociation to and from clusters perturb the stability of network and problem becomes worse if nodes are clusterheads (CH). Therefore cluster maintenance schemes are needed to handle new admissions and releases of node in the clusters. In this paper, we introduce a novel cluster maintenance algorithm which selects a new clusterhead from a trusty area that is defined previously based on some maintenance optimization rules. The election process is done before the current clusterhead leaves the cluster. So the routes which include this clusterhead as a middle node are less probable to break and... 

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) due to different characteristics from wired networks are more vulnerable to security attacks. Construction of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for MANETs is complicated by the fact that they are lack of fixed infrastructure and lack of central management for authentication and distribution of cryptographic keys. On the other hand, the network lifetime is an important issue in MANETs because of the energy power of mobile nodes is limited. In this paper is presented a proposed Method that in the first step, authorized nodes are detected by non-interactive zero knowledge technique and in the second step, nodes with the highest battery power from among authorized... 

Although many Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols have been specifically designed for WSNs where energy awareness is an essential consideration, only a few of them have considered the presence of mobile nodes or dynamic network topology in their protocols. However, they have usually considered occasional mobility, in which a few number of nodes may start moving at very low speeds and then remained immobile for a long period of time. In this paper, we propose a modified version of LMAC as Mobile-LMAC (MLMAC) to improve its performance in the scenarios include continuous mobility. The protocol is compared to SMAC and LMAC by simulation. The results show that the proposed MLMAC protocol has... 

An ad hoc network is a multi-hop wireless network formed by a collection of mobile nodes without the intervention of fixed infrastructure. Reliable Multicast plays a significant role in many applications of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). In recent years, a number of protocols have been proposed to deliver multicast packets reliably. In this paper we intend to propose a reliable multicast algorithm with local recovery approach, because importance of on-demand routing protocol we use this method in our algorithm. By using this algorithm nodes can join to multicast group in minimum time and data delivery will be increase. This method achieves fast recovery when route breakage happens, so... 

Sensor networks are systems of many small units that work together to monitor a given environment. A mixed sensor network is composed of a collection of static and mobile nodes that has sensing, computation, communication, and locomotion capabilities. Sensor mobility can be used to compensate for the lack of sensors and improve network coverage. This paper aims to describe an algorithm called Coin for mixed sensor network deployment in an unknown environment by using a small number of mobile sensors. It allows the network to achieve maximum coverage with minimum energy consumption. Our solution includes distributed schemes for: 1) determining the exact size of a coverage hole; 2) determining... 

A Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a collection of wireless mobile nodes forming a self-configuring network without using any existing infrastructure. Network nodes in a mobile Ad-hoc network move in some motion patterns called mobility models. The mobility models play a very important role in determining the protocol performance in MANET. Thus, it is essential to study and analyze various mobility models and their effect on MANET protocols. If we can recognize the mobility pattern of motion of mobile nodes in our environment we can customize our network protocols to deal with that existing mobility model. In this paper we introduce a new method for classification and pattern recognition of... 

Topology control algorithms in mobile ad-hoc networks aim to reduce the power consumption while keeping the topology connected. These algorithms can preserve network resources and increase network capacity. However, few efforts have focused on the issue of topology control in presence of node mobility. One of the notable mobility aware topology control protocols is the "Mobility Aware Distributed Topology Control Protocol". The main drawback of this protocol is on its mobility prediction method. This prediction method assumes linear movements and is unable to cope with sudden changes in the mobile node movements. In this paper, we propose a pattern matching based mobility prediction method...