Abstract Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) is a current alternative paradigm for
developing IP mobility management schemes to address the centralised mobility …

Mobility is a natural phenomenon in cellular networks. The worldwide popularity of mobile
communications and Internet has necessitated the merger of the two fast growing …

The emerging 5G mobile network technology is envisioned to provide an efficient platform to
interconnect machines, objects, and devices in addition to interconnecting people. Equipped …

The coexistence of multiple access technologies deployed by different operators is
fundamental for future fourth-generation mobile networks. In spite of this heterogeneity …

This paper proposes a mobility management scheme to provide a mobile node with high-
quality handovers among heterogeneous wireless access networks. The proposed scheme …

The rapidly-growing number of mobile subscribers has led to the creation of a large number
of signalling messages. This makes it difficult to efficiently handle the mobility of subscribers …

The quality of service (QoS) in public transportation is not at an acceptable level in high-
mobility scenarios as penetration loss severely degrades signal quality and reduces the …

With the shift towards decoupling of data and control plane and the softwarization in mobile
networks, delivery of mobile network control functionalities can be foreseen as over the top …

Substantial works have recently been reported on the mobility management in single-hop
wireless networks (eg cellular networks and WLAN hotspots), while there has been an …