HAWAII: a domain-based approach for supporting mobility in wide-area wireless networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An anchor chain scheme for IP mobility management
Wireless Networks
Perfect Simulations for Random Trip Mobility Models
ANSS '05 Proceedings of the 38th annual Symposium on Simulation
Mobility management support and performance analysis for wireless MPLS networks
International Journal of Network Management
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
A survey of mobility management in next-generation all-IP-based wireless systems
IEEE Wireless Communications
IDMP-based fast handoffs and paging in IP-based 4G mobile networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mobility management in third-generation all-IP networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
Dynamic hierarchical mobility management strategy for mobile IP networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Architecture for mobility and QoS support in all-IP wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Cross-layer end-to-end label switching protocol for WiMAX-MPLS heterogeneous networks
Journal of Systems and Software
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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 traffic and service disruption due to frequent hand-offs. The two latter effects need to be minimized to support quality of service (QoS) requirements of emerging multimedia applications. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive micro-mobility management scheme designed to track efficiently the mobility of nodes so as to minimize both handoff latency and total signaling cost while ensuring the MN's QoS requirements. We introduce the concept of residing area. Accordingly, the micro-mobility domain is divided into virtual residing areas where the MN limits its signaling exchanges within this local region instead of communicating with the relatively far away root of the domain at each handoff occurrence. A key distinguishing feature of our solution is its adaptive nature since the virtual residing areas are constructed according to the current network state and the QoS constraints. To evaluate the efficiency of our proposal, we compare our scheme with existing solutions using both analytical and simulation approaches for the 2-D random walk model as well as real mobility patterns. Numerical and simulation results show that our proposed scheme can significantly reduce registration updates and link usage costs and provide low handoff latency and packet loss rate under various scenarios.