The expected boost in mobile data traffic and the evolution towards the next generation of networks are making cellular operators reconsider whether current approaches for handling mobility could be improved, according to the characteristics of the mobile traffic that actually flows through real networks. In this work, we make use of extensive analysis of real network traces to infer the main c...

This document describes Media-independent Pre-Authentication (MPA), a new handover optimization mechanism that addresses the issues on existing mobility management protocols and mobility optimization mechanisms to support inter-domain handover. MPA is a mobileassisted, secure handover optimization scheme that works over any link layer and with any mobility management protocol, and is most appli...

In wireless cellular networks, location management operation expends the limited wireless resources to keep track the location information of a mobile terminal. Various dynamic location update (LU) schemes have been proposed to improve the efficiency of location management. However, most of them only work for certain mobility patterns. In this paper, we propose a new scheme that the LU area is ...

In mobile networks, efficient IP mobility management is a crucial issue for the mobile users changing their mobility anchor points during handover. In this regard several mobility management methods have been proposed. However, those are insufficient for the future mobile Internet in terms of scalability and resource utilization as they mostly follow the centralized management approach owning s...

In Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6), when a Mobile Node (MN) enters a PMIPv6 domain and attaches to an access link, the router on the access link detects attachment of the MN by the link-layer access. All elements of PMIPv6 including the router then provide network-based mobility management service for the MN. If the MN moves to another router in this PMIPv6 domain, the new router emulates attachment...

This document describes Media-independent Pre-Authentication (MPA), a new handover optimization mechanism that addresses the issues on existing mobility management protocols and mobility optimization mechanisms to support inter-domain handover. MPA is a mobileassisted, secure handover optimization scheme that works over any link layer and with any mobility management protocol, and is most appli...

With the increasing deployment of mobile devices and the advent of broadband wireless access systems such as WiBro, mWiMAX, and HSDPA, an efficient IP mobility management protocol becomes one of the most important technical issues for the successful deployment of the broadband wireless data networking service. IETF has proposed theMobile IPv6 as the basic mobility management protocol for IPv6 n...

Combinatorial Mobile IP, a new mobility management scheme for Mobile IP, is proposed and analyzed. We present how to adopt mobility management schemes on cellular networks and adapt them in Mobile IP without disrupting the nature of the Internet. We apply widely used mobility management schemes such as hierarchical architecture and paging in cellular networks to Mobile IP. We restrict paging to...

As wireless technology advances, wireless products are integrated with enterprise networking to offer cordless terminal mobility. Most corporations have deployed wireless PBXs at the departmental level. However, the mobility management mechanism that integrates these facilities at the corporation level may not be available. This paper describes a mobility management mechanism for an enterprise ...