In sensor-nets the individual sensor nodes are generally assumed to be static. However, some recent applications of sensor-nets (e.g. in medical care and disaster response) make use of mobile sensor nodes, which poses some unique challenges to sensor-net systems researchers. In this paper we address the issue of mobility management from a sensor-net architecture point of view. While in current ...

This article reviews recent progress in the study of IP-based mobility management technology for enhancing the mobility of cellular phones and other mobile nodes in fourth-generation mobile communications systems. The architecture and components of this management technology are described and some experimental and simulation results are presented. IP-based Mobility Management Technology Special...

In this report, an overview of mobility management in heterogeneous networks and intercell interference coordination in heterogeneous networks is written. Initially the need for deploying heterogeneous networks and elements in a typical heterogeneous network are discussed. Deployment of heterogeneous networks introduces a few challenges. In this report two of the key challenges handover and int...

Mobile Ad-Hoc network (MANET) is the network of mobile nodes, which has no fixed infrastructure, and mobile nodes can roam and communicate freely each other. Recently, many researches for mobility management are carried out actively by using location information of nodes. The mobility management is an important issue in MANET because location information of mobile nodes is frequently changed an...

Several task forces have been working on how to design the future Internet in a clean slate manner and mobility management is one of the key issues to be considered. However, mobility management in the future Internet is still being designed in an “all-in-one” way where all management functions are tightly kept at a single location and this results in cost inefficiency that can be an obstructio...

Vehicular Adhoc Networks (VANET) are gaining importance in vehicular networks and attracting an increasing attraction from both industry and research communities. Mobility Management is one of the most important and challenging research issue in vehicular networks which support various applications of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). A specific mobility management solution is required f...

Mobile IP (MIP) provides a global framework for IP mobility management; however, it is not suitable for micro-mobility environments. Many domain-based micromobility management schemes have been proposed to overcome the limit of MIP. All these scheme delegate to MIP for inter-domain mobility. Recently there is a trend to use Multiple Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) to deal with mobility manageme...

In the world of cellular telephony there is a hierarchy of controlling devices. Cellular telephones communicate with Base Transceiver Stations (BTS) or transceivers, which in turn are assigned to Base Station Controllers (BSC) or controllers. All controllers are connected to a Mobile Switching Centers (MSC). As a user of a cellular telephone moves around, the call must be transfered from transc...

In this paper, we focus on mobility management and its deployment issues. There are many proposed mobility management mechanisms. However, the deployment of such mobility management has been facing difficulties and it is slower than it is initially expected. Therefore, we argue the issues to boost the deployment process. We especially focus on the end-toend approach, which can be mainly achieve...