Evolution of Mobility in Future Wireless Networks

Abstract

With an ever increasing appetite for data over wireless networks, one is forced to think where the additional capacity in the wireless networks come from to carry the traffic? Some would argue that additional spectrum needs to be made available or a substantial increase in spectral efficiency has to come by. However, notwithstanding the above, an additional area that has important implications is to evolve seamless and non-seamless session mobility across disparate access technologies such as WiFi to offload some of the traffic to these alternate networks. Similarly, selective handover of specific flows across smaller cells such as Femto and Pico cells of the same access technology will have an impact on the overall capacity of the network. This not only will improve the capacity of these networks but may also enhance the quality of experience for users.