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Improved Bounds on Information Dissemination by Manhattan Random Waypoint Model

19 September 2018
A. Rezaei
Jie Gao
J. M. Phillips
Csaba D. Tóth
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Abstract

With the popularity of portable wireless devices it is important to model and predict how information or contagions spread by natural human mobility -- for understanding the spreading of deadly infectious diseases and for improving delay tolerant communication schemes. Formally, we model this problem by considering MMM moving agents, where each agent initially carries a \emph{distinct} bit of information. When two agents are at the same location or in close proximity to one another, they share all their information with each other. We would like to know the time it takes until all bits of information reach all agents, called the \textit{flood time}, and how it depends on the way agents move, the size and shape of the network and the number of agents moving in the network. We provide rigorous analysis for the \MRWP model (which takes paths with minimum number of turns), a convenient model used previously to analyze mobile agents, and find that with high probability the flood time is bounded by O(Nlog⁡M⌈(N/M)log⁡(NM)⌉)O\big(N\log M\lceil(N/M) \log(NM)\rceil\big)O(NlogM⌈(N/M)log(NM)⌉), where MMM agents move on an N×NN\times NN×N grid. In addition to extensive simulations, we use a data set of taxi trajectories to show that our method can successfully predict flood times in both experimental settings and the real world.

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