The introduction of the ATM technology in wireless CPN environments necessitates the design of mobility protocols, since B-ISDN signaling was not developed to support terminal movement. The functionality of mobility protocols consists of the procedures for handover (rerouting of active data connections to a new cell) and for location management (tracking the exact location of a mobile terminal ...

Location management consists of location update and search protocols. Trade-oo in location management is between the cost of searches and the cost of updates. The goal of an \eecient" location management strategy is to reduce the search and update costs. In this paper, we show that, using forwarding pointers in addition to home location servers help in providing eecient location management. It ...