Max-flow Capacity for Multi-hop Mobile Wireless Networks

In this paper, the mobility of multi-hop wireless networks is considered as a key factor influencing max-flow capacity, and a new unified analytical expression of the maximum flow capacity of a mobile wireless network is derived under mobility models. The simulation results under different mobility models, including random waypoint, random walk, and random direction, show that the max-flow capacity of mobile wireless networks still exhibits a concentration behavior around the mean value of the minimum cut, which is less than the expected number of the neighbors of the network.