The architecture of current operator infrastructures is being challenged by the non-stopping
growing demand of data hungry services appearing every day. While currently deployed …

Recently, various efforts from both industry and academia are being performed on specifying
distributed mobility management (DMM). One of the early and promising network-based …

The design and deployment of a novel mobile network architecture, motivated by the
challenges deriving from the explosive increase in data traffic on operator networks, are a …

In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive performance study of distributed and dynamic
mobility management (DDMM). DDMM presents a new architectural paradigm for a …

Mobile operators are now facing the challenges posed by a huge data demand from users,
mainly due to the introduction of modern portable devices and the success of mobile …

Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) refers to a set of solutions developed to overcome
the limitations posed by currently deployed centralized mobility management schemes …

The number of wireless services and devices have remarkably increased, especially since
the introduction of smart phones. The population of mobile nodes (MNs) is now exceeding …

Mobile Internet data traffic has experienced an exponential growth over the last few years
due to the rise of demanding multimedia content applications and the increasing number of …

The recent explosion of mobile Internet traffic is accelerating the evolution of mobile network
architectures toward flat architectures with all IP backhaul support. IP mobility support …

The ever-increasing demand of mobile Internet traffic is pushing operators to look for
solutions to increase the available bandwidth per user and per unit of area. At the same …