Persistence and Prevalence in the Mobility of Dartmouth Wireless Network Users

Dartmouth Technical Report TR2003-455

	Clara E. Lee

Date: May 2003

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-455.ps.Z> (228KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-455.pdf> (156KB)

Abstract:
  Wireless local-area networks (WLANs) are increasing in popularity.  As
 more people use WLANs it is important to understand how these users
 behave.  We analyzed data collected over three months of  2002 to
 measure the persistence and prevalence of users of the Dartmouth
 wireless network.  
   We found that most of the users of Dartmouth's network have
 short association times and a high rate of mobility.  This
 observation fits with the predominantly student population of
 Dartmouth College, because students do not have a fixed
 workplace and are moving to and from classes all day.  

Note:
 The data in this paper is highly suspect; see TR2003-480.