With the advent of increasingly diverse services, applications, and use cases, the 5G
mobility environment is expected to be highly heterogeneous. The distributed mobility …

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) has changed the network landscape. Meanwhile, IP-
based mobility management still evolves, and SDN affects it dramatically. Integrating Proxy …

This thesis presents a novel Software-Defined Networking based flexible handover
management mechanism for 5G mobile networks. The performance of Distributed Mobility …

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) …

Mobility management has always been a challenging and important issue for the next‐
generation all‐IP mobile networks. Seamless mobility is one of the requirements to provide …

Wireless broadband technology is now in motion to provide higher data rate, wider coverage
and improved mobility. Towards this the 4G-network is an integration of various wireless …

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 …

With the great increase of connected devices and new types of applications, mobile
networks are witnessing exponential growth of traffic volume. To meet emerging …

A mobility management issue is surfacing again as it is expected that mobility requirements
will be very essential and vary with application scenarios in the future 5G networks. An …

Revised: 14 March 2014 Accepted: 26 March 2014 Published: 31 March 2014 Abstract—
IPv6 mobility management is one of the most challenging research topics for an efficient …