Efficient mobility management is one of the major challenges for next-generation mobile systems. Indeed, a mobile node (MN) within an access network may cause excessive signaling t...
In the near future, wide variety of wireless networks will be merged into the Internet and allow users to continue their application with higher degree of mobility. In such enviro...
—In this paper, we propose a novel vertical handoff decision algorithm for overlay wireless networks consisting of cellular and wireless local area networks (WLANs). The target n...
— Mobile IP is a solution for mobility support in the global Internet. However, it suffers from long handoff delay. Many solutions have been proposed to reduce the handoff delay ...
The concept of care-of-address (CoA) is a major cause of excessive handoff delay in Mobile IPv6 for real time multimedia traffic. Many schemes eliminate the use of CoA at the micr...