01203nas a2200145   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002100002100043700002200064245007800086300001400164490000800178520085700186022001401043       2014                            d1 aMichał Gorawski1 aKrzysztof Grochla00aReview of mobility models for performance evaluation of wireless networks  a567–5770 v2423 aPerformance evaluation of protocols and mechanisms in wireless networks require a good representation of client mobility. The number of mobility models has been developed, to emulate the changes of location in time of mobile wireless devices in communication networks, such as e.g. mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, palmtops.Mobility models are used to verify the protocols and algorithms developed for wireless networks in simulation and using analytical tools. The mobility patterns of such devices converges with human movement patterns, as the mobile devices bearers. Among many propositions of human mobility modeling in the literature this paper presents and reviews techniques which are most commonly used or that give very good estimation of actual mobile device bearer behavior. The models are divided into 3 groups: random, social and hybrid.  a2194-5357