The way we use and access the Internet has been changing since its creation, evolving to
more dynamic traffic patterns and following new consumption trends such as IP video in …

Mobility management has become crucial in highly dynamic environments. As mobility traffic
grows, handover rates between cells and different technologies increase. Handover has …

Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) is considered by many to be a suitable mobility
management system for future 5G network. This approach implements flatter and more …

In this paper we discuss the evolution of mobility management mechanisms in mobile
networks. We emphasize problems with current mobility management approaches in case of …

1.1 Background The past few years witnessed an increasing mobile data traffic, thanks to the
proliferation of mobile terminals-such as smart phones, tablets and so on. And this trend is …

Abstract Smooth handovers of Mobile Nodes (MN) between different points of attachments to
the network ensures seamless connectivity when users move from one place to another. In …

This paper presents a survey of the state of the art in research related to handovers
employing software defined networking (SDN) enabled architectures, serving multiple …

SDN (Software Defined Networking) has been promised as a next information transport
infrastructure. Some SDN solutions have been deployed due to their benefits of features and …

The advent of SDN in mobile networks enables mobility management solutions with a flow-
centric perspective. Based on SDN/NFV paradigms the softwarized data plane encourages …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is transforming the networking ecosystem. SDN allows
network operators to easily and quickly introduce new services and flexibly adapt to their …