Andreas Frey and Volker Schmidt
University of Ulm
Institute of Stochastics
D-89069 Ulm, Germany
frey@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
schmidt@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
Abstract: The present survey deals with stochastic models for planar point patterns which can be applied to investigate the spatial organization of large communication networks. This concerns networks with fixed wired structure as well as wireless and mobile communications. Besides discussing several classes of stochastic models for planar point patterns, the survey deals with the statistical methods interrelating the models with empirical data, as well as with simulation methods to generate samples of planar point patterns.