Adaptive mobility management in wireless networks

The first generation of communication protocols for wireless networks have recently been augmented by auxiliary protocols. These protocols are characterised by the open-loop nature of their control of network traffic. The authors propose a new generation of closed-loop protocols that are coupled with a real-time optimization framework. New itinerary caching is proposed and a genetic algorithm with seeding is used for optimisation. Simulation results show improvements of 20-50% in message traffic when using the proposed adaptive protocols