Mobile node adapted router and home agent router

• US 20020071417A1
• Filed: 07/30/2001
• Published: 06/13/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Takechi, Ryuichi, Kato, Tsuguo, Nakatsugawa, Keiichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,136,365 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/34 Modification of an existing route
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/082 for traffic bypassing of mobility servers, e.g. location registers, home PLMNs or home agents
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/005 Data network PoA devices

Abstract

A mobile node adapted router and home agent router operating by the IPv6 protocol able to shorten the time required for updating the current address of the mobile node and increase the speed of switching of the transfer route and providing a transfer route not passing through a home agent every time for a node not supporting this protocol, provided with a memory unit for storing a current address of a mobile node which the correspondent node should store instead of the correspondent node and a transfer unit for referring to the memory unit when receiving a packet transmitted to the home address of the mobile node, converting it to the current address, and transmitting the packet.

Claims

1. A mobile node adapted router, forming a network supporting packet communication for at least a mobile node, comprising:

a memory means for storing a current address of said mobile node which should be stored by a correspondent node of the packet communication in place of the correspondent node and

a transfer means for referring to said memory means, converting said home address destination to said current address destination, and transmitting a packet when receiving a packet transmitted from said correspondent node to the home address destination of the mobile node.

2. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a registering means for newly registering correspondence between the home address and the current address in the memory means triggered by the reception of update notifying information transmitted for notifying the correspondent node in communication of updating of an address along with a change of the current address due to movement of the mobile node.

3. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 1, wherein said network includes a home agent router accommodating the mobile node at the home address and the mobile node adapted router further comprises a registering means for newly registering the correspondence between the home address and the current address in the memory means triggered by the transfer of an updated address from the home agent router when receiving update notifying information transmitted for notifying the home agent router of updating of an address along with a change of the current address due to movement of the mobile node.

5. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 2, wherein when the correspondent node is a node supporting the Mobile-IPv6 protocol, the current address is a care-of address and the update notifying information is a binding update signal.

6. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 5, wherein said transfer means holds authentication information set with the mobile node and returns a binding acknowledgment signal for reception of the binding update signal to the mobile node originating the binding update signal.

7. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 5, wherein said transfer means forms an IPv6 routing header describing said home address in said packet when transferring the packet from said correspondent node to said mobile node.

8. A mobile node adapted router as set forth in claim 5, wherein said transfer means IP-in-IP encapsulates and transfers said packet by an IPv6 header including said current address when transferring the packet from said correspondent node to said mobile node.

4. A home agent router, forming a network supporting packet communication for at least a mobile node, comprising:

a receiving means for receiving update notifying information transmitted for notifying the home agent router of updating of the address along with a change of the current address due to movement of the mobile node and

an address update notifying means for transmitting the current address after updating to another router forming the network when receiving the update notifying information.

9. A home agent router as set forth in claim 4, wherein said other router is a mobile node adapted router able to communicate with a mobile node supporting the Mobile-IPv6 protocol and wherein said address update notifying means notifies said mobile node adapted router of a care-of address indicating said current address as a destination option as one of the IPv6 extension headers.

10. A home agent router as set forth in claim 9, wherein a packet notified to said mobile node adapted router includes an authentication header and wherein the authentication data inside said authentication header is comprised of results of calculation using the authentication information set between the home agent router and the mobile node adapted router and the content of the packet.