Due to the increasing demand for pervasive video and broadcast-like applications, multicast
and broadcast communications are expected to assume an important role in upcoming 5G …

The introduction of the Service-Based Architecture (SBA) for the 5G Core Networks has
drastically changed the way these networks are designed and operated. Aiming for higher …

The fifth generation of mobile networks, 5G, is expected to support a set of many
requirements and use cases such as handling connectivity for a massive number of IoT …

The on-demand connectivity service is one of the main requirements of the cellular data
network. It consists in moving sessions transparently and temporarily from one network …

Recently, several researchers have proposed adopting software‐defined networking (SDN)
concepts for mobile network architectures, particularly for LTE‐evolved packet core …

Nowadays, mobile operators face the challenge to sustain the future data tsunami. In fact,
today's increasing data and control traffic generated by new kinds of network usage puts …

Long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-advance (LTE-A) are widely used efficient network
technologies serving billions of users, since they are featured with high spectrum efficiency …

With increase in cellular-enabled IoT devices having diverse traffic characteristics and
service level objectives (SLOs), handling the control traffic in a scalable and resource …

DMME is a distributed architecture that implements mobility management for next-
generation cellular systems. It has been designed to serve as a scalable and cost-effective …

In Long Term Evolution (LTE), service area is divided into tracking areas (TAs), which
consist of a group of cells and do not overlap with each other, and a TA list (TAL) is assigned …