In our previous work [1], a mechanism for handling movement detection using a proposed agent-based architecture for mobility management was described. This architecture, referred here as AMP Agent-based Mobility Protocol, consists of a collaborative multi-agent system that enhances user/node mobility over an IP-based network. Specifically, mobility agents are placed in the hosts and at the acce...

In wireless networks, users freely change their service points while they are connected. Mobility management in this environment is an essential technology for keeping track of the users' current location and for delivering data correctly. Then, the challenge is the design of an efficient IP-based mobility management scheme. Mobility management with provision of seamless handover is a key topic...

Integrated mobility and service management for network cost minimization in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). We first investigate the problem of mobility management in WMNs for which we propose two efficient per-user mobility management schemes based on pointer forwarding, and then a third one that integrates routing based location update and pointer forwarding for further performance improvement...

Mobility management, integration and interworking of existing wireless systems are important factors to obtain seamless roaming and services continuity in next generation or 4G wireless networks (NGWN/4G). Although, several IPv6-based mobility protocols as well as interworking architectures have been proposed in the literature, they cannot guarantee seamless roaming, especially for real-time ap...

In this paper, we consider the mobility management in large, hierarchically organized multihop wireless networks. The examples of such networks range from battlefield networks, emergency disaster relief and law enforcement etc. We present a novel network addressing architecture to accommodate mobility using a “Home Agent” concept akin to mobile IP. The performance of the mobility management sch...

This document defines the requirements for Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) in IPv6 deployments. The traditionally hierarchical structure of cellular networks has led to deployment models which are in practice centralized. Mobility management with logically centralized mobility anchoring in current mobile networks is prone to suboptimal routing and raises scalability issues. Such centraliz...

the mobile data traffic has been extremely expanded for years and will remains the high growth rate in a long term. It is believed that distributed mobility management has been developed to be a new trend of designing mobility management scheme to solve the problem caused by the increasing traffic volume. Based on reviewing the characters of distributed mobility management schemes as a model of...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are a particular category of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) characterized by a high mobility and a reduced connectivity. In order to develop protocols for vehicular networks, the community may either create VANET specific approaches, or adapt already existing protocols to VANET. While the former may provide efficient specialized solutions, the latter offers a...

The evolving design of current fixed and mobile networks suggests that packet switching will become the primary technology to serve mobile multimedia applications. In order to operate satisfactorily, these applications require two distinct functions from the communication networks, namely mobility management and Quality of Service (QoS) support. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Internet Pro...