Cellular networks have been hierarchical so that mobility management have primarily been
deployed in a centralized architecture. More flattened network architecture for the mobile …

Telecommunications networks are undergoing major changes so as to meet the
requirements of the next generation of users and services, which create a need for a general …

The recent explosion of mobile Internet traffic is accelerating the evolution of mobile network
architectures toward flat architectures with all IP backhaul support. IP mobility support …

The design and deployment of a novel mobile network architecture, motivated by the
challenges deriving from the explosive increase in data traffic on operator networks, are a …

A network element (NE) comprising a hypervisor configured to receive a first virtual machine
(VM) from a source hypervisor, and send a first VM mobility registration request to a …

The current IP mobility protocols are called centralized mobility management (CMM)
solutions, in which all data traffic and management signaling messages must be forwarded …

The architecture of current operator infrastructures is being challenged by the non-stopping
growing demand of data hungry services appearing every day. While currently deployed …

Currently most of the mobility management solutions rely on a centralized mobility anchor
entity, which is in charge of both mobility-related control plane and user data forwarding …

The recent explosion of mobile Internet traffic has resulted in an evolution of mobile network
architectures. Mobile network architectures are being flattened to cope with the recent traffic …

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 …