1. EE 548 Mobility Management in Cellular Networks

2. Location management Location updates: mobile to network Paging: network to mobile Location information dissemination: within network

3. Mobility management references Pahlavan an d Krishnamurthy, Principles of Wireless Networks, Prentice Hall, 2002

4. Handoff management 1.Handoff decision initiation 2. Connection rerouting

5. Handoff considerations Cellular: network controls the handoff WLAN: mobile controls the handoff

6. Handoff management process (VLR) (HLR)

7. Separate signaling network used for call management