Recent Advances on Future Networks and Their Management

This article describes current and proposed protocols for mobility management for public land mobile networks (PLMNs), Mobile IP, wireless ATM, and satellite networks. The integration of these networks is discussed in the context of the next ...

Future generation wireless networks should provide to mobile users the best connectivity to services anywhere at anytime. The most challenging problem is the seamless intersystem/vertical mobility across heterogeneous wireless networks. In order to ...

The functionalities of the next generation Internet protocol, IPv6, have become increasingly interesting due to the current merging of the traditional cellular mobile communications and the traditional data-communications into the future wireless systems, ...