Research Article
Kinematic Constraints and ns-3 Mobility Models: the AUV Issue
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/3067665.3067673, author={Matteo Franchi and Tommaso Pecorella and Alessandro Ridolf and Romano Fantacci and Benedetto Allotta}, title={Kinematic Constraints and ns-3 Mobility Models: the AUV Issue}, proceedings={Proceedings of the Workshop on ns-3}, publisher={ACM}, proceedings_a={WNS3}, year={2017}, month={7}, keywords={ns-3 Mobility Models AUV}, doi={10.1145/3067665.3067673} }- Matteo Franchi
Tommaso Pecorella
Alessandro Ridolf
Romano Fantacci
Benedetto Allotta
Year: 2017
Kinematic Constraints and ns-3 Mobility Models: the AUV Issue
WNS3
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3067665.3067673
Abstract
Recently there has been a renewed interest in ns-3 as a tool for Un-derwater Acoustic communications, with the integration of World Ocean Simulation System (WOSS, [4, 6]) into ns-3. However, the current implementation of ns-3 does not provide specific models suitable for AUVs (Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) mobility. An old proposal is available, made by Andrea Sacco during his Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2010 project. However, the code has never been integrated into ns-3. In order to simulate the communications of AUVs, it is mandatory to rely also on simple and eective mobil-ity systems, where the kinematic constraints of the node are taken into account. The requirements of a mobility model for AUVs is to be able to take into account the kinematic model of the real device and to set up a feasible path between two (or more) points. This paper presents a new extensible architecture based on kinematic models, which greatly simplifies the simulation complexity.