Nowadays there is an increasing need for a general paradigm which can simplify network management and further enable network innovations. Software Defined Networking (SDN) is an efficient way to make the network programmable and reduce management complexity, however it is plagued with limitations inherited from the legacy Internet (TCP/IP) architecture. In this paper, in response to limitations...

Recent technological advances in geo-positioning, mobile communications, and computing hardware are combining to offer new opportunities for improved collective transport services. While the routes are getting more and more congested, it is important to attract people to use public transport, which should be more attractive compared to the private cars. This paper presents the objectives of the...

Public transport systems play a vital role in the daily life of all citizens. There is a recognised need to shift transport patterns of usage from private means to public means as this has beneficial effects in terms of the environment, reduced road-related deaths and general quality of life. Public transport environments are complex ones involving a large number of people (passengers and staff...

We propose and estimate a novel transport layer mobility management scheme: Seamless IP diversity based Generalized Mobility Architecture (SIGMA). SIGMA provides seamless handover for mobile hosts and is based on Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP), which is a new dependable transport protocol to transport SS7 signaling messages over IP network. We also show that our handover scheme can...