Gaussian Profile based Vehicular Mobility Modeling

Gaussian Profile based Vehicular Mobility Modeling

The driving behavior of a person is influenced by a multitude of local and global factors. These include nature of the driver, distance between the source and destination, condition of the road selected by the driver, traffic conditions, time constraints, lane changing, overtaking actions, safe distance, reaction time etc. are vital for modeling the mobility of a vehicle and are largely determined by the driving behavior. In this paper, a profile based model has been proposed to define the mobility behavior of the vehicles. Different types of influence on the mobility have been lumped and the profile of the motion of vehicles has been modeled as a Gaussian profile. In this model, a driver, first, selects the source, destination and his path and then, selects the parameters of the profile according to his/her presumption. Simulation and results show that profile based model is able to generate realistic and smooth mobility patterns.