Method for reestablishment of IP address for idle mode MSS and method for transmitting information thereof in broadband wireless access system

• US 7,885,224 B2
• Filed: 11/04/2005
• Issued: 02/08/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Ryu, Ki Seon, Kim, Yong Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): LEVITAN, DMITRY
• Application Number:
  US11/718,709
• Publication Number:
  US 20080095088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,922 Days
• Field of Search: 370/310, 370/328, 370/331, 370/338, 370/351, 370/389, 455/403, 455436-458
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5076 Update or notification mechanisms, e.g. DynDNS
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0011 for data sessions of end-to-end connection
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0019 adapted for mobile IP [MIP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]

Abstract

A method of updating an IP address of an idle mode mobile subscriber station in an IP based broadband wireless access system and method of transmitting information for updating the IP address are disclosed. In updating an IP address of a mobile subscriber moving away into a second base station area from a first base station area in a broadband wireless access system, the present invention includes the steps of in the first base station area, entering an idle mode, in the second base station area, receiving information about an IP address update in the idle mode, and according to the received information, changing or retaining an IP address.

Claims

1. A method of transmitting information for reestablishing an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a mobile subscriber station in a broadband wireless access system, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first base station, a first message including information indicating that the mobile subscriber station has entered an idle mode and information indicating a subnet or a foreign agent to which a second base station is connected; and

transmitting, by the first base station, a second message to the mobile subscriber station in the idle mode, the second message including a field indicating whether the mobile subscriber station is required to reestablish the IP address, wherein the second base station has approved the entry of the mobile subscriber station in the idle mode,

wherein the first base station and the second base station belong to a same paging group,

wherein the field of the second message is set based on the information indicating the subnet or the foreign agent to which the second base station is connected, and

wherein the mobile subscriber station performs ranging for a location update and reestablishes the IP address if the field of the second message indicates that the mobile subscriber station is required to reestablish the IP address.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message is a paging announce (Paging-announce) message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the information indicating the subnet or the foreign agent to which the second base station is connected comprises a network identifier (Net ID) of the subnet or the foreign agent.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message is received from a paging controller.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first message is received from the second base station.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second message is a paging advertisement message.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the paging advertisement message is periodically transmitted.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the first base station is connected to the subnet or the foreign agent to which the second base station is connected, the field is set to indicate that the mobile subscriber station is not required to reestablish the IP address.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the first base station is connected to a subnet or a foreign agent different from the subnet or the foreign agent to which the second base station is connected, the field is set to indicate that the mobile subscriber station is required to reestablish the IP address.

10. A method of reestablishing an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a mobile subscriber station area station in a broadband wireless access system, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the mobile subscriber station, an idle mode request message to a first base station, the idle mode request message requesting entry to an idle mode;

receiving, by the mobile subscriber station, an idle mode response message from the first base station, the idle mode response message including paging information indicating a paging cycle and a paging offset;

receiving, by the mobile subscriber station, a paging advertisement message from at least a second base station belonging to a same paging group as the first base station, the paging advertisement message including a field indicating whether the mobile subscriber station is required to reestablish the IP address, wherein the field is set based on information regarding a subnet or a foreign agent to which the at least a second base station is connected; and

performing, by the mobile subscriber station, ranging for a location update and reestablishing the IP address if the field of the paging advertisement message indicates that the mobile subscriber station is required to reestablish the IP address.

11. The IP address updating method of claim 10, wherein the paging advertisement message is periodically received.