Chapter 7

Mobility Management

Abstract

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of Mobility Management in the 5G System. The 5GS has several functions that differ from previous 3GPP-based systems including Service Area Restriction (SAR), Local Area Data Networking (LADN) and Mobile Initiated Connection Only (MICO). Understanding mobility management is crucial to 5GS. This chapter provides a detailed description of the main mobility management related functionality. This chapter therefore lays the basis for several subsequent chapters.

Keywords

5G; 5GS; 5G core; 5G networks; Mobility Management; 5GMM; UE; Service Area Restriction; LADN; MICO; Paging

7.1 Introduction

The general principles for Mobility Management in 5GS are similar ...

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