A Review: On Mobility Prediction for Wireless Networks

Rapid mobile networking growth and network applications diversity led to the need for future generation wireless networks to support a wide range of Quality-ofService (QoS). Next generation networks of 4G and beyond aim to ensure that seamless mobility across heterogeneous networks and support to real-time multimedia services. This needs intra and inter-domain handovers/service reconfiguration procedures which have to be completed with minimum latency. Mobility Prediction is a key to this goal. Increased interaction between mobile users and networks require mobility prediction schemes to be used in next generation networks so that they are capable of high prediction accuracy in spite of user movement being random. This work presents a survey on mobility prediction schemes proposed for wireless networks. Keywords—Mobility Prediction, Quality-of-Service (QoS), Seamless mobility, Wireless Networks