MONGOOSE: a MObility sceNario Generation tOOl for Structured Environments

Mobility models play a key role in the evaluation of wireless network protocols and applications. Simulation results obtained with an unrealistic model may not reflect the true performance of a system in real environments. Besides, different environments may be characterized by different patterns of mobility which require simulation scenarios to be supported by suitable mobility models. The choice of the mobility model and its parameters has significant impact on the result of the simulations. In this paper we present MONGOOSE (MObility sceNario Generation tOOl for Structured Environments), a highly flexible and easily extendable software tool for the simulation of mobility scenarios in structured environments such as shopping malls, urban areas, museums, schools, hospitals, music festivals, amusement parks, stadiums, airports. Moreover, new mobility models can be easily added to the list of those already provided and some of their mobility parameters and simulation playground can be described without programming requirements. Here, we use MONGOOSE to show the impact of four different mobility models on the performance of two well-known delay tolerant routing protocols, Epidemic and Prophet.