Topology Hiding Of Mobile Agents

• US 20090313379A1
• Filed: 07/03/2006
• Published: 12/17/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Rydnell, Gunnar, Goldbeck-Löwe, Tomas, Rommer, Stefan
• Application Number:
  US12/307,507
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313379A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/228
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0892 by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

A method, infrastructure node (11, 12, 202), and mobile node (1) arranged to hide topology information from the user and mobile node by translating topology information to non-topology related address information and using session management messages of a first communication protocol as bearer for Internet Protocol mobility messages relating to a second communication protocol.

Claims

1. A communication infrastructure node for a mobile communication network, arranged to communicate with at least one mobile node using a first communication protocol and at least one host server, the infrastructure node further arranged to communicate with the mobile node with a second communication protocol in a packet based mobility enabled network, the infrastructure node comprising:

a processor arranged with functionality for acting as a Care-of-Address identifying device for connecting a host address in the second communication protocol to a network identifier excluding network topology address information in the second communication protocol network and the processor further comprising means to use session management signaling of the first communication protocol as bearer of Internet Protocol (IP) based mobility control information of the second communication protocol.

2. The node according to claim 1, further comprising a receiving portion for receiving registration request information sent from said mobile node together with session management information.

3. The node according to claim 2, further comprising a transmitting portion to send registration response information to said mobile node together with session management information.

4. The node according to claim 1, further comprising means to translate said network identifier using at least one of a domain name server (DNS) or Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) server

5. The node according to claim 1, wherein said session management signaling is a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context.

6. The node according to claim 1, wherein said session management signaling is at least one of Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and IP security protocol (IPSec) Security Association (SA).

7. The node according to claim 1, further comprising means to replace a home agent IP address from a packet header in a data packet before forwarding said data packet to said mobile node.

8. The node according to claim 1, further comprising means to recalculate a checksum, based on home agent IP address, provided in data packets forwarded to said mobile node.

9. The node according to claim 1, wherein the packet based mobility protocol is at least one of Mobile Internet Protocol, i.e. MIP, Host Identity Protocol, i.e. HIP, or IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming, i.e. MOBIKE.

10. The node according to claim 1, wherein the network identifier is temporary.

11. A method for hiding topology information in a mobile communication network comprising a first and second communication protocols, said method comprising the steps of:

translating in a node of said network a host Internet Protocol (IP) Address in the second communication protocol into a second address excluding network topology address information; and

using one or several session management messages for the first communication protocol in the mobile communication network for distributing mobility IP control information of the second communication protocol between said node and a mobile node.

12. The method according to claim 11, arranged to receive registration request information sent from said mobile node together with session management messages.

13. The method according to claim 12, further arranged to send registration response information to said mobile node together with session management messages.

14. The method according to claim 11, wherein said network identifier is arranged as to be translated using at least one of a domain name DNS or AAA server.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein said session management message is a Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein said session management message is at least one of IKE and IPSec SA.

17. The method according to claim 11, arranged to replace a home agent IP address from a packet header in a data packet before forwarding said data packet to said mobile node.

18. The method according to claim 11, arranged to recalculate a checksum, based on home agent IP address, provided in data packets forwarded to said mobile node.

19. The method according to claim 11, wherein the second communication protocol is at least one of Mobile Internet Protocol, i.e. MIP, Host Identity Protocol, i.e. HIP, or IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming, i.e. MOBIKE.

20. A mobile node for use in a mobile communication network, wherein said mobile node comprises processing means for connecting to an infrastructure node in said communication network with specific session management control messages for a first communication protocol for said mobile communication network and adding mobile Internet Protocol, i.e. IP, control messages for a second communication protocol to said session management messages, wherein control messages of the second communication protocol comprise a host server identifier excluding network topology address information.

21. The mobile node according to claim 20, wherein the second communication protocol is at least one of Mobile Internet Protocol, i.e. MIP, Host Identity Protocol, i.e. HIP, or IKEv2 Mobility and Multihoming, i.e. MOBIKE.