The 5 th Generation wireless systems (5G) is expected to accommodate exceptional
services beyond current cellular systems. To achieve this goal, however, ongoing studies …

Mobility management (MM) in Long‐Term Evolution (LTE) networks is a vital process to
keep an individual User Equipment (UE) connected while moving within the network …

In mobile wireless networks, mobility management (MM) is an important process to track and
locate user equipments (UEs), including Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, while moving …

Device-to-Device (D2D) communications have recently attracted researchers, attention
because of their numerous applications in industry verticals. It enables communications …

Mobility management in 5G networks is a very challenging issue. It requires novel ideas and
improved management so that signaling is kept minimized and far from congesting the …

Many registration schemes have been proposed to reduce the signaling cost required for
user's mobility management in wireless communication networks. Various results on mobility …

LTE networks consist of tracking areas (TAs) or a group of cells, while several TAs constitute
a TA list (TAL). The LTE network adopts TAL-based registration, where, if the user …

An efficient location registration scheme is essential to continuously accommodate the
increasing number of mobile subscribers and to offer a variety of multimedia services with …

The 4G/5G networks deploy conventional Tracking Area Update and multi-step paging
procedures for mobility management. The paging procedure consumes significant amount of …

In long-term evolution (LTE) network, service area is composed of tracking areas (TAs) lists
(TALs) and a TAL includes a few neighbor TAs. In this paper, we consider paging schemes …