Method for Route Transmission Based on Single IPv6 Address Prefix, and Wireless Device

• US 20140215087A1
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Published: 07/31/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DRNC Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Lu, Tao, Ma, Xiaoliang, Zhao, Li, Li, Jianfeng
• Granted Patent: US 9,258,699 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/604 Address structures or formats
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/622 Layer-2 addresses, e.g. medium access control [MAC] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/659 Internet protocol version 6 [IPv6] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/668 Internet protocol [IP] address subnets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/677 Multiple interfaces, e.g. multihomed nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/686 using dual-stack hosts, e.g. in Internet protocol version 4 [IPv4]/Internet protocol version 6 [IPv6] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/25 of the same type
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5007 Internet protocol [IP] addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/24 Connectivity information management, e.g. connectivity discovery or connectivity update
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/04 Network layer protocols, e.g. mobile IP [Internet Protocol]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

The present document provides a method and wireless device for implementing route transmission based on a single IPv6 address prefix. The method includes: when a wireless device succeeds in IPv6-based dialing and obtains one 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix from a network side, the wireless device first setting apart a 126-bit IPv6 address prefix from the prefix, and then allocating the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix to a WAN interface, allocating the 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix to a LAN interface, and notifying a user terminal connected to the LAN interface of the IPv6 prefix of the LAN interface, so that the user terminal connected to the LAN interface generates its own IPv6 address through a stateless address auto-configuration mechanism for communication. With the technical solutions of the present document, in an IPv4/IPv6 dual stack mode, IPv4 and IPv6 protocol stacks operate normally, and the radio resource consumption is reduced.

Claims

1. A method for implementing route transmission of a wireless device based on a single IPv6 address prefix, comprising:

when a wireless device succeeds in IPv6-based dialing and obtains a 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix from a network side, the wireless device first setting apart a 126-bit IPv6 address prefix from the prefix, and then allocating the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix to a wireless Wide Area Network (WAN) interface, allocating the 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix to a Local Area Network (LAN) interface, and notifying a user terminal which is connected to the LAN interface of the IPv6 prefix of the LAN interface, so that the user terminal connected to the LAN interface generates an IPv6 address of itself through a stateless address auto-configuration mechanism for communication.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in order to prevent a condition that a host address in the 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix segment of the LAN interface is the same as an address in the 126-bit-long IPv6 address prefix segment of the WAN interface of the wireless device from occurring, the wireless device starts an address collision detection.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein, a process of the address collision detection comprises the following steps,

in step one, when the wireless device receives a Neighbor Solicitation (NS) message transmitted by a host connected to the LAN interface from the LAN interface, whether a source address of the NS message is an unspecified address is first determined, if yes, the message is a repeat detection address, and it is to proceed to step two, if not, the collision detection process ends;

in step two, the NS message contains an IPv6 address to be detected, the wireless device determines whether the IPv6 address belongs to any of host addresses contained in the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix subnet, if yes, one Neighbor Advertisement (NA) message is transmitted to a source host, to notify the source host that the IPv6 address has been used;

otherwise, the collision detection process ends.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein, in order to prevent a condition that a host address in the 64-bit-long IPv6 address prefix segment of the LAN interface is the same as an address in the 126-bit-long IPv6 address prefix segment of the WAN interface of the wireless device from occurring, the wireless device starts a 126-bit IPv6 address prefix subnet ID optimization strategy.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein, the optimization strategy specifically is that, in the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix, a 71^st bit is set to 1, 89^th˜

104^th bits have any value other than 0×

FFFE, other 65^th˜

70^th, 72^th·

88^th and 105^th˜

126^th bits have any value.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein, the optimization strategy specifically is that, in the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix, the 71^st bit is set to 1, 65^th˜

70^th and 73^th˜

88^th bits are for a vendor ID in an Ethernet address of the LAN interface, and other 89^th18 126^th bits have any value.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the wireless device receives one IPv6 data package from the LAN interface, processing and forwarding are performed by means of:

the wireless device first determining whether a destination IPv6 address of the data package is a local address, if yes, forwarding the data package to an upper layer application program of the wireless device for processing;

otherwise, the wireless device determining whether the destination IPv6 address of the data package is an address which does not belong to the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix segment but belongs to the 64-bit IPv6 address prefix segment, if yes, discarding the data package, and transmitting redirection message to the source host, to notify the source host that a destination host is a neighbor; and

if not, forwarding the data package to the WAN interface.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein, when the wireless device receives one IPv6 data package from the WAN interface, processing and forwarding are performed by means of:

the wireless device first determining whether a destination IPv6 address of the data package is a local address, if yes, forwarding the data package to an upper layer application program of the wireless device for processing;

otherwise, the wireless device determining whether the destination IPv6 address of the data package is an address which belongs to the Perfix/126 segment, if yes, discarding the data package, and transmitting redirection message to the source host, to notify the source host that the destination host is a neighbor; and

if not, forwarding the data package to the LAN interface.

9. A wireless device for implementing route transmission of the wireless device based on a single IPv6 address prefix, comprising:

an interface module, a prefix configuration module, and a data forwarding module, wherein,

the interface module contains at least one WAN interface and one LAN interface, the WAN interface can be connected to Internet through 2G/3G wireless technology, and the LAN interface is connected to a user terminal by means of a cable or Wifi;

the prefix configuration module sets apart one 126-bit IPv6 address prefix from a 64-bit IPv6 address prefix obtained from a network side, then allocates the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix to a WAN interface, allocates the 64-bit IPv6 address prefix to a LAN interface, and notifies a user terminal which is connected to the LAN interface of the IPv6 prefix of the LAN interface, so that the user terminal connected to the LAN interface generates an IPv6 address of itself through a stateless address auto-configuration mechanism;

the data forwarding module is responsible for identifying and forwarding IPv6 data packages of two subnets of 64-bit IPv6 address prefix and 126-bit IPv6 address prefix.

10. The wireless device according to claim 9, wherein, identifying and forwarding comprises:

forwarding the data package received from the WAN interface and not transmitted to the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix segment but belonging to the 64-bit IPv6 address prefix segment to the LAN interface, and forwarding the data package received from the LAN interface and transmitted to the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix subnet or Internet interconnection segment to the WAN interface.

11. The wireless device according to claim 9, wherein, the wireless device further comprises a collision detection module, which is responsible for a host address detection in the LAN interface, to ensure that a condition that the host address in the 64-bit IPv6 address prefix segment of the LAN interface of the wireless device is the same as an address in the 126-bit IPv6 address prefix segment of the WAN interface of the wireless device will not occur.