IP mobility support has been a hot topic over the last years, recently fostered by the role of IP
in the evolution of the 3G mobile communication networks. Standardization bodies, namely …

Mobility management with provision of seamless handover is crucial for an efficient support
of global roaming of mobile nodes (MNs) in next-generation wireless networks (NGWN) …

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is an IP mobility protocol. In a PMIPv6 domain, local mobility
anchor is involved in control as well as data communication. To ease the load on a mobility …

IP Mobility management protocols are divided into two kinds of category: host-based and
network-based mobility protocol. The former category, such as MIPv6 protocol and its …

Abstract Following the Always Best Connection (ABC) principle of the 4th generation
wireless networks users of mobile services would be provided with connectivity to the best …

Mobile Internet traffic is growing steeply, mainly due to the deployment of new broadband
wireless technologies and the ever increasing connectivity demand coming from new …

With the rapid growth in the number of mobile subscribers and mobile devices, the demand
high-speed Internet access is becoming a primary concern in our lives. Not long ago, the …

Network based mobility management has attracted significant research interest due to its
salient feature of relieving mobile nodes from participating in the mobility process. This …

In a single local mobility domain of Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) the mobile node (MN) uses
only its PMIPv6 home address for all its communication. When the MN moves into another …

Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) is a network-based mobility management protocol that does not
require mobile node involvement in mobility management. In PMIPv6, the mobile access …