MobiTools is a mobility suite which integrates the use of real maps in mobility traces creation (MobiMap/MobiDense), a real map viewer (MobiView), and the effects of propagation (MobiRay).

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  • MobiView is a visualization tool for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. MobiView relies on NASA World Wind, an open source application which grants access to NASA Landsat imagery.

  • MobiView accepts three file formats: GPX, NMEA and Qualnet [carid time (lat, lon, alt)]. NS2 will be supported in the next release.

  • MobiView enables to graphically place vehicles on a map and visually estimate network connectivity and mobility realism. This tool incorporates all the features of NASA WorldWind, it is possible to zoom and view the map from different angles while the animation is running. MobiView can pause, play, forward and backward at different speeds thus featuring VCR like capabilities.

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"Gustavo Marfia, Paolo Lutterotti, Giovanni Pau - MobiTools: An Integrated Toolchain for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, UCLA Computer Science Department, TR#070019, October 25, 2007". This paper contains a description of the MobiTools architecture.

You are welcome to download and use the MobiTools code free of charge under the Apache License, Version 2. We only ask you to keep the copyright notices that any published research from using this code includes a reference to the initial technical report about MobiTools.

Acknowledgments

MobiTools is a product of the Italy-USA joint laboratory on Vehicular Networks and is partially supported by the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella, Torino, Italy, the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the National Science Foundation under the SWARMS project.

We would like to thank all the colleagues and friends that contributed with critiques, comments, and data. In particular, Mr. Enzo De Sena with the University of Naples "Federico II", Dr. Stephan Eidenbenz with the Los Alamos National Laboratories, Ms. Tammara Massey with UCLA, and Dr. Antony Rowstron with Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK.

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