Method for data transmission and local network entity

• US 9,439,127 B2
• Filed: 01/22/2014
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apex Net LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mademann, Frank, Zhou, Qing
• Primary Examiner(s): Mattis, Jason
• Application Number:
  US14/161,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20140198781A1
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/082 for traffic bypassing of mobility servers, e.g. location registers, home PLMNs or home agents

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for data transmission with a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity for connecting the local network to a data network. The method comprises receiving, by a first local network entity of the local network entities of the local network, a data packet, the network address of the first mobile entity on the basis of the data packet, determining, by the first local network entity on the basis of the network address of the first mobile entity, the second local network entity, via which the first mobile entity is connected to the local network, and forwarding, by the first local network entity, the data comprised by the data packet to the first mobile entity via the second local network entity.

Claims

1. A method for data transmission with a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity gateway for connecting the local network to a data network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first local network entity of the local network entities of the local network from a first mobile entity, a data packet addressed to the at least one local network entity gateway and comprising data addressed to a second mobile entity, and wherein the data packet encapsulates a network address of the second mobile entity;

retrieving, by the first local network entity, the network address of the second mobile entity encapsulated by the data packet;

determining, by the first local network entity on the basis of the network address of the second mobile entity, a second local network entity, via which the second mobile entity is connected to the local network; and

forwarding, by the first local network entity, the data comprised by the data packet to the second mobile entity via the second local network entity, wherein the forwarding bypasses the at least one local network entity gateway connected to the data network.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a mapping information between the second local network entity and the second mobile entity by the first local network entity, wherein determining the second local network entity comprises using the stored mapping information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the second local network entity comprises sending a broadcast request to the local network for receiving a mapping information between the second local network entity and the second mobile entity, the request comprising the network address of the second mobile entity.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the second local network entity sends the requested mapping information in response to the request of the first local network entity.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the local network comprises a local resolution server for storing mapping information between each mobile entity connected to the local network and the corresponding local network entity via which the mobile entity is connected to the local network, and wherein the local resolution server sends the stored mapping information between the second local network entity and the second mobile entity in response to the request of the first local network entity.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second local network entity sends a further data packet through the local network before receiving the data packet for the second mobile entity by the first local network entity, the further data packet comprising a mapping information between the second local network entity and the second mobile entity, and wherein determining the second local network entity comprises using the mapping information comprised by the further data packet.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the further data packet is included in a broadcast message to the local network entities of the local network, the broadcast message being sent for announcing the mapping information.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the further data packet is included in a unicast message to the first local network entity.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the network address is allocated unambiguously to the first mobile entity by a data network external to the local network.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein forwarding comprises sending the data comprised by the data packet from the first local network entity to the second local network entity and from the second local network entity to the second mobile entity.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the data packet is forwarded to the first local network entity by the second local network entity.

12. A local network entity for a local network, the local network comprising a plurality of local network entities for connecting mobile entities to the local network and at least one local network entity gateway for connecting the local network to a data network, which comprises a routing entity having a router network address allocated, the local network entity configured to:

receive, from a first mobile entity, a data packet addressed to the router network address and comprising data addressed to a second mobile entity, wherein the data packet encapsulates a network address of the second mobile entity, and wherein the second mobile entity is connected to the local network via a second local network entity of the plurality of further local network entities;

retrieve the network address of the second mobile entity on the basis of the data packet;

determine, on the basis of the network address of the second mobile entity, the second local network entity, via which the first mobile entity is connected to the local network; and

forwarding the data comprised by the data packet to the second mobile entity via the second local network entity, wherein the forwarding bypasses the at least one local network entity gateway connected to the data network.

13. The local network entity of claim 12, wherein the local network entity is configured to store a mapping information between the second local network entity and the second mobile entity, and to determine the second local network entity using the stored mapping information.

14. The local network entity of claim 12, wherein the local network entity is configured to connect the first mobile entity to the local network, and to send a mapping information between the local network entity and the first mobile entity connected to the local network via the local network entity in response to a request for the mapping information, the request being received from the local network.