A network-based global mobility management architecture

This paper specifies a network-based global mobility management architecture, named NetGMM. NetGMM supports network-based mobility management and non-Mobile IP mobile environment. There are two design considerations. The first is that future mobile network requires network-based mobility management shifting the mobility management function from mobile node to access network nodes. The second is that future mobile network will support IP multi-services, introducing a separation between network address and identity of a mobile node entity allow heterogeneous networks to work together without loss of functionality.