A growing number of location-based applications are based on indoor positioning, and much of the research effort in this field has focused on the pattern-matching approach. This approach relies on comparing a pre-trained database (or radio map) with the received signal strength (RSS) of a mobile device. However, such methods are highly sensitive to environmental dynamics. A number of solutions ...

One of the major issues that affect the performance of mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) is routing. Recently, position-based routing for MANET is found to be a very promising routing strategy for inter-vehicular communication systems (IVCS). However, position-based routing for IVCS in a built-up city environment faces greater challenges because of potentially more uneven distribution of vehicular...

Profile-Based Location Caching with Fixed Local Anchor (PCFLA) Strategy can reduce the frequent access to the HLR. As a result, the total management cost is minimized in a wireless mobile network. However, if the MT’s information is not found at calling MSC then the HLR is accessed to get that information every time. Middle Location Register (MLR) is located between VLR and HLR. It helps to red...

in wireless sensor networks (wsns), localization algorithms could be range-based or range-free. the approximate point in triangle (apit) is a range-free approach. we propose modification of the apit algorithm and refer as modified-apit. we select suitable triangles with appropriate distance between anchors to reduce pit test errors (edge effect and non-uniform placement of neighbours) in apit a...

New and forthcoming Earth Observation satellite missions include in their payloads remote sensing instruments of very low spatial resolution. Data and product validation from these sensors introduces a set of specific scientific issues that make it necessary to carry out specific measurements over large extended areas. The main objective of the VALENCIA Anchor Station is to define a reference a...

Over the past few years, modern mobile subscriber devices such as Smartphones, tablets and PDAs have become more and more popular which use network resources in a more aggressive way and last for longer durations involving dramatically increasing traffic volumes. But traditional mobility management schemes have hardly taken this issue into account. Distributed mobility management is considered ...

Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 (HMIPv6) was designed to support IP micro-mobility management in the Next Generation Networks (NGN) framework. The main design behind this protocol is the usage of Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) located at any level router of network to support hierarchical mobility management. However, the distance MAP selection in HMIPv6 causes MAP overloaded and increase frequent bindin...

We consider the problem of self-localization by a resource-constrained node within a network given radio signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements from a set of anchor nodes where the RSSI measurements as well as the anchor position information are subject to perturbation. In order to achieve a computationally efficient estimate for the unknown position, we minimize a weighted sum-square-di...

In this paper, a proactive correspondent registration mechanism is proposed for the Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIPv6) route optimization between the correspondent node (CN) and the mobile access gateway (MAG) on behalf of the mobile node (MN) in wireless access networks. Two scenarios are considered according to the type of CN. For the proposed mechanism, the proxy home test and the concurrent care-of...

In this paper, an efficient neighbor AR (Access Router) discovery scheme and handoff procedure using neighbor information are proposed. It allows each AR and Mobility Anchor Point (MAP) to know neighboring ARs and MAPs, and therefore, a mobile node (MN) can perform the handoff process in advance, using the proposed handoff mechanism. It is important to note that the Inter-MAP domain handoff imp...