Wireless communication system and method of conducting wireless communication

• US 8,737,356 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2012
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Mizukoshi, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): GREY, CHRISTOPHER P
• Application Number:
  US13/554,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20120300729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 370/329, 370/330, 370/331, 370/338, 370/401, 370/469, 370/395.2, 370/395.3
• US Class Current: 370/331
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/622 Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/24 Connectivity information management, e.g. connectivity discovery or connectivity update
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation

Abstract

A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations, a mobile wireless communication device which makes wireless communication with the base stations, a terminal device, and a router through which the base stations make communication with an IP network. The terminal device transmits an address thereof to the mobile wireless communication device, before the mobile wireless communication device makes link with one of the base stations. The terminal device fabricates a frame addressed to an address of the router, and transmits the frame to the router, after the mobile wireless communication device has made link with one of the base stations. The router transmits an address thereof to the base stations, before the mobile wireless communication device makes link with one of the base stations. The router fabricates a frame addressed to an address of the terminal device, and transmits the frame to the terminal device, after the mobile wireless communication device has made link with one of the base stations.

Claims

1. A network system, comprising:

a mobile wireless communication device;

a wireless base station which makes wireless communication with the mobile wireless communication device; and

a controller which controls the wireless base station; and

wherein the wireless base station transmits data including an identifier of the mobile wireless communication device to the controller, when the wireless base station makes a link with the mobile wireless communication device,

wherein the wireless base station stores information of the controller before the wireless base station makes the link with the mobile wireless communication device,

wherein the information of the controller includes an address of the controller, and

wherein the wireless base station, which receives a broadcast packet, judges whether a source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller, and transmits the broadcast packet to the mobile wireless communication device with which the wireless base station makes the link when the source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller.

2. The network system as defined in claim 1,

wherein the wireless base station transmits the data to the controller according to a request from the mobile wireless communication device.

3. The network system as defined in claim 2,

wherein the mobile wireless communication device sends a message indicating that the mobile wireless communication device requests the wireless base station to transmit the data, and

wherein the wireless base station transmits the data to the controller when the wireless base station receives the message.

4. The network system as defined in claim 1,

wherein the wireless base station transmits the broadcast packet to the controller when the source address of the broadcast packet is not the address of the controller.

5. A wireless base station which is controlled by a controller, comprising:

an interface which makes wireless communication with a mobile wireless communication device;

a transceiver which transmits data including an identifier of the mobile wireless communication device to the controller, when the interface makes a link with the mobile wireless communication device; and

a memory which stores information of the controller before the interface makes the link with the mobile wireless communication device,

wherein the information of the controller includes an address of the controller, and

wherein the transceiver, which receives a broadcast packet, judges whether a source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller, and transmits the broadcast packet to the mobile wireless communication device with which the interface makes the link when the source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller.

6. The wireless base station as defined in claim 5,

wherein the transceiver transmits the data to the controller according to a request from the mobile wireless communication device.

7. The wireless base station as defined in claim 6,

wherein the interface receives a message indicating that the mobile wireless communication device requests the wireless base station to transmit the data, and

wherein the transceiver transmits the data to the controller when the interface receives the message.

8. The wireless base station as defined in claim 5,

wherein the transceiver transmits the broadcast packet to the controller when the source address of the broadcast packet is not the address of the controller.

9. A method, comprising:

establishing a link between a wireless base station and a mobile wireless communication device;

transmitting data including an identifier of the mobile wireless communication device from the wireless base station to a controller which controls the wireless base station, when the link has been established; and

at the wireless base station, storing information of the controller before the wireless base station makes the link with the mobile wireless communication device,

wherein the information of the controller includes an address of the controller, and

wherein the wireless base station, which receives a broadcast packet, judges whether a source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller, and transmits the broadcast packet to the mobile wireless communication device with which the wireless base station makes the link when the source address of the broadcast packet is the address of the controller.

10. The method as defined in claim 9,

wherein the step of transmitting the data comprises transmitting the data from the wireless base station to the controller according to a request from the mobile wireless communication device.

11. The method as defined in claim 10, further comprising the step of:

sending a message from the mobile wireless communication device to the wireless base station, wherein the message indicates that the mobile wireless communication device requests the wireless base station to transmit the data, and

wherein the step of transmitting the data comprises transmitting the data from the wireless base station to the controller when the wireless base station receives the message.

12. The method as defined in claim 9,

wherein the wireless base station transmits the broadcast packet to the controller when the source address of the broadcast packet is not the address of the controller.