Fourth-generation (4G) mobile systems provide access to a wide range of services and
enable mobile users to communicate regardless of their geographical location and their …

Amount of Internet traffic has increased significantly in recent times. Penetration of mobile
and handheld devices in the society is also remarkable. In order to address the user …

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) …

Current network architectures, as well as mobility management protocols, are generally
deployed in a centralized manner. Moreover, these protocols are designed to be always …

Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) is a generally accepted mobility management protocol to support user
mobility in IP networks, which use registration mechanism to maintain location information of …

This paper presents an overview of IPv6-based mobility management protocols: mobile IPv6
(MIPv6), fast handovers for mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6), hierarchical mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), and …

Mobile IP is the current standard proposed by IETF for mobility management in IP networks.
Mobility management becomes a critical issue to track mobile user's current location and to …

Abstract The Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6), which is based on the Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6),
has been proposed by IETF to reduce registration control signaling. It separates micro …

This chapter provides a survey of IP layer mobility management protocols in next generation
wireless networks. In all-IP-based next generation wireless networks, mobile nodes freely …

Mobile IP has been developed to provide the continuous information network access to
mobile users. In IP-based mobile networks, location management is an important …