Management techniques for wireless network mobility procedures

A mobility management entity (MME), comprising:

• one or more radio frequency (RF) transceivers;
• one or more RF antennas;
• and
• logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a forward relocation request during a handover procedure for a user equipment (UE), determine, based on the forward relocation request, whether a local home network of the UE changes, determine whether to maintain a selected internet protocol traffic offload at local network (SIPTO@LN) packet data network (PDN) connection of the UE following the handover procedure based on whether the local home network of the UE changes, and maintain the SIPTO@LN PDN connection in response to a determination that the local home network of the UE does not change.

A mobility management entity (MME), comprising:

• at least one radio frequency (RF) transceiver;
• at least one RF antenna;
• and
• logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to determine whether to release a selected internet protocol traffic offload at the local network (SIPTO@LN) packet data network (PDN) connection of a user equipment (UE) following a tracking area update (TAU) procedure for the UE based on a local home network identifier (ID) comprised in a received context response message, the SIPTO@LN PDN connection to comprise a connection to a packet data network through a stand-alone gateway (GW).