The rapid increase in internet usage for the past few decades has steered to higher demand
and for adequate support for the network mobility in heterogeneous networks. However, in …

Mobile IP is the current standard proposed by IETF for mobility management in IP networks.
Mobility management becomes a critical issue to track mobile user's current location and to …

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) was designed to support IP micro-mobility management
in the next generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) and the Next Generation Networks (NGN) …

IP mobility support has been a hot topic over the last years, recently fostered by the role of IP
in the evolution of the 3G mobile communication networks. Standardization bodies, namely …

Mobile IPv6 was proposed to provide mobility support to IPv6 based mobile devices. It
includes a route optimization procedure, to overcome the problem of triangular routing …

A flatter architecture is one of the trends of mobile Internet. Traditional centralized mobility
management mechanism faces the challenges such as scalability and UE reachability. A …

IP Mobility management protocols are divided into two kinds of category: host-based and
network-based mobility protocol. The former category, such as MIPv6 protocol and its …

Current network architectures, as well as mobility management protocols, are generally
deployed in a centralized manner. Moreover, these protocols are designed to be always …

In order to support continuous communication for the mobile terminals, many mobility
management protocols have been proposed and they can be adopted in different scenarios …

With the inclusion of IP stacks in mobile computers and devices, mobility support for Internet
devices is becoming more important which allows mobile devices to move from one network …