Editorial for special issue of Telecommunication Systems on “Mobility management and wireless access”

Abstract

In the last decade, we have been witnessing an explosive growth in the development, deployment, and adoption of a wide range of wireless communication technologies and applications. Ubiquitous access of information anywhere, anytime, from any device by end-users continues to drive the need to develop innovative design architectures, protocols, and networks with capabilities that can help achieve this goal. The advent of mobile networks and applications has opened up many research challenges that need to be addressed to enable seamless end-to-end communication transparently over a highly heterogeneous network infrastructures. In particular, mobility management and wireless access are two specific areas where a lot of attention has been given to in order to achieve the seamless end-to-end connectivity goal. This special issue is dedicated to original results and achievements by active researchers, designers, and developers working on various issues and challenges related to mobility management and wireless access. After a rigorous peer review process we accepted ten papers (with authors from twelve countries). These papers cover a wide range of topics including mobility management and protocols, modeling, performance analysis, Quality of Service (QoS), and scheduling. In “Access selection and mobility management in a beyond 3G RAN: the WINNER approach”, Tragos et al.