Location management in mobile ad hoc networks are mainly motivated by the adoption of geographic routing of packets because of scalability issues. The main location management proposals have, as a common characteristic, two distinct phases: the location query of the position of a destination node and the data transmission toward that node. We propose to send the initial packets of a flow to lea...

Mobile agents are processes that can be dispatched from source computer and be transported to remote servers for execution, have been widely argued to be an important enabling technology for future systems. Location management is a necessity for locating mobile agents in a network of mobile agent hosts for controlling, monitoring and communication during processing and it still represents an op...

The physical locations of clients and access points in a wireless LAN may have a large impact on network performance. However, today’s WLAN management tools do not provide information about the location of clients apart from which access point they associate with. In this paper, we describe a scalable and easy-to-deploy WLAN management system that includes a self-configuring location estimation...

The mobility feature of mobile stations (MSs) imposes a large burden on network traffic control as a result of location management. Design issues of location management include MS registration (updating) and call set-up (paging). Previous approaches introduced several network topologies for updating and paging procedures, but most of them focused on a single problem: either updating optimizatio...