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 …

Because of the rise in popularity of mobile devices and the rising demand for high-quality
multimedia content, mobile node traffic and mobile Internet data have increased dramatically …

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 …

Seamless mobility in future generation networks, which are envisioned to be heterogeneous
in nature, is an important issue. While Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) work groups …

Current network mobility management protocols allow users to access broadband Internet
while moving in vehicles or from vehicles to fixed locations without breaking ongoing …

Mobility management allows the networks to track down a mobile user's location for sending
datagrams and to retain the connection when the user changes its location points …

Currently existing IP mobility management protocols deploy a centralized anchor to manage
mobility of the mobile nodes in both control-and data-planes. As a result the data traffic and …

Abstract Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) maintains the mobility management of mobile users
without involving them in the signaling of mobility process. The main limitations of PMIPv6 …

Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) is a new trend to overcome the limitations of the
current IP mobility management protocols raised by the rapid increasing mobile Internet …

Recently, distributed mobility management (DMM) solutions have been proposed to address
the drawbacks of centralized mobility management (CMM) solutions. The Internet …