249 results about "MIP protocol" patented technology

A mobile telephone gateway and communication routing device (MPG) (121) disclosed by the present invention is coupled through an electrical signaling transmission medium with a mobile telephone (100) operative on a first communication network in accordance with a first communication protocol, for adding communication capabilities through at least a second communication network in accordance with a second communication protocol. A mobile communication system (150) is disclosed, comprising MPG (121) placed in-between mobile phone (100) and battery (118) and Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card (117). MPG connects to the SIM interface of mobile phone (100), using which it wraps SIM functionalities and controls call management. It connects to the data / signaling interface of mobile phone (100), using which it communicates with it, while communicating with the second network using another communication means. It may optionally connects to an accessory device interface of mobile phone (100) such as a Terminal Adapter / Terminal Equipment (TA / TE) or a USB OTG interface, thereby enabling communication between the mobile phone and wireless data terminals of the second network. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a MPG is provided for use with a mobile phone operative on a mobile communication network such as GSM, adding communication capabilities through a wireless communication network such as Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Furthermore, gateway applications are provided to facilitate or support communication through at least the second network in accordance with mobile web protocols and technologies such as Mobile IP, mobile SIP, and mobile VoIP.

Methods and apparatus for performing proxy registration on behalf of a node with a Home Agent supporting Mobile IP are disclosed. A first registration request is composed on behalf of the node and transmitted to the Home Agent via a first Local Mobility Anchor, wherein the first Local Mobility Anchor is a regional controller via which registration is performed when the node moves within a region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor. When the node moves within a region or between regions, the node is re-registered. Specifically, a second registration request is composed and transmitted to the first Local Mobility Anchor when the node moves within the region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor. When the node moves into a second region associated with a second Local Mobility Anchor and outside the first region associated with the first Local Mobility Anchor, a second registration request is composed and transmitted to the Home Agent via the second Local Mobility Anchor, wherein the second Local Mobility Anchor is a regional controller via which registration is performed when the node moves within a region associated with second first Local Mobility Anchor.

Methods and apparatus for updating accounting information for a mobile node operating according to Mobile IP Protocol are disclosed. A network device which supports Mobile IP composes a request packet for the mobile node. The request packet identifies the mobile node and includes at least one counter associated with accounting information pertaining to the mobile node. The request packet is then sent to a server adapted for performing accounting. The server then logs the accounting information for the mobile node. The server may then send a reply packet to the network device acknowledging logging of the accounting information pertaining to the mobile node. A bill for Mobile IP services may then be generated from the accounting information.

Method and apparatus for establishing a tunnel between a mobile node and a routing device. The method includes the steps of utilizing the mobile node to place a call over a cellular network and gaining access to a foreign agent of the cellular network. A Mobile IP link is established between the foreign agent and a home agent and the call is authenticated. A tunnel is initiated between the home agent and the routing device and call data is tunneled between the home agent and the routing device.

In a mobile communication system utilizing Mobile IP, information on the access network is exchanged between access routers. And when a mobile terminal performs a handover, the previously exchanged information on the neighbor access routers and the access network information are provided to the mobile terminal. By so doing, the mobile terminal can determine a destination access router in advance, enabling to realize an efficient handover processing.

An emergency telephone call is supported and routed to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) in an IP based packet switched wireless communications network. An activate PDP context request is sent from a user equipment to the network. A parameter in the activate PDP context request indicates that the PDP context will be used to transfer an emergency call. An activate PDP context accept message is returned from the support node to the user equipment. The activate PDP context accept message acknowledges the activate PDP context request message and provides the address of a call state control function. A call setup request transferred to the call state control function includes the Service Area Identity (SAI). The call state control function selects a PSAP based, at least in part, on the SAI included in the call setup request and forwards the emergency call to the selected PSAP.

There is disclosed a method of establishing a connection between a mobile station and a serving domain, in which a first security association exists between the mobile node and an associated home domain, and a second security association exists between the serving domain and the home domain, the method comprising: transmitting a first message from the mobile node to the serving domain, the first message being encrypted in accordance with the first security association; transmitting the first message from the serving domain to the home domain; decrypting the first message in the home domain in accordance with the first security association; transmitting a second message from the home domain to the serving domain, the second message being encrypted according to the first security association; transmitting the second message from the serving domain to the mobile node; decrypting the second message in the mobile node in accordance with the first security association.

A system for negotiating the provision of a mobile IP service, such as, MIPv4 or MIPv6, between a mobile node and a server in a network includes the steps of providing an authentication protocol establishing a pass-through transport between the mobile node and the server and negotiating the provision of the mobile IP service via the authentication protocol over the pass-through transport.

A protocol that enables an 802 mobile host to obtain a “home IP address,” and other configuration parameters via DHCP or BOOTP, while attached to either its home subnet or a foreign subnet. Inner and outer encapsulation headers are used to forward DHCP messages from a DHCP server outbound through a “forward tunnel,” to a mobile host on a foreign subnet and are also used to forward DHCP messages from a mobile host on a foreign subnet inbound through a “reverse tunnel” to the home subnet. A mobile host must add an inner encapsulation header to inbound DHCP packets with the source IP address set to 0 to indicate that the packet is from a mobile host that does not have a registered home IP address. Outer encapsulation headers contain the home address and the care-of address for the mobile host.

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed that provide coordination between MPTCP and mobile IP (MIP). An MPTCP session may be established between a mobile node and a correspondent node. MIP and simple IP subflows may be established in the MPTCP session. The mobile node may activate MIP and establish a first subflow via MIP. The first subflow may be associated with a first path that may be routed through a first home agent. The mobile node may deactivate MIP and establish a second subflow via simple internet protocol (IP). The second subflow may be associated with a second path that is not routed through a home agent.

A mobile web browser embedded in a smartphone operative to open a secure and private session with a web server on the Internet via one or more cell towers, using a mobile IP address of the smartphone, the mobile web browser including a VPN connector operative to connect the smartphone to a secure VPN server and to establish a virtual IP address for the smartphone, the virtual IP address corresponding to the location of the VPN server, a switch operable to change a current IP address of the smartphone used by the mobile web browser from a non-VPN mobile IP address to the virtual IP address of the VPN server, in a seamless manner without interrupting a current session with a web server, a URL content scanner causing a URL of a web page to be scanned for potential malware, a URL blocker, a tracker scanner and a tracker blocker.

A system and method for measuring and recording latency in data networks. The system and method can be used to measure and record latency in a Simple IP network or a Mobile IP network. One embodiment of the present invention is a system and method for measuring latency between a first device and a second device, the first and second devices communicating in accordance with a communications specification. The system and method comprises the second device transmitting, during a communication session, a message to the first device; receiving a response message from the first device; computing an elapsed time from transmission of the message to receipt of the response message to determine the latency; and recording the latency in a latency parameter. The message and the response message are provided by the communications specification.

In the preferred embodiments, a system and / or method is disclosed for performing an MPA proactive handover of a mobile node in a Mobile IP scenario which includes, employing a care-of address assigned by a previous foreign agent (pFA-CoA) as a mobile node's tunnel outer address of a forward proactive handover tunnel from a new foreign agent to the mobile node.

A network system using Mobile Internet Protocol (IP). The network system includes a correspondent node for transmitting a packet in which information passing a packet filter rule is included, and a packet filtering apparatus for determining whether an address included in information of the packet received from the correspondent node is identical to a destination address stored in the packet filter rule, and determining whether to pass the packet according to the determination result.

An apparatus and method is provided for facilitating the seamless handoff of IP connections between access routers in an IP network. The mobile IP network includes two or more access routers each serving a different geographic service area. When a mobile terminal moves from the first service area to the second service area, the mobile terminal transmits to the second access router the IP address of the previous access router. The second access router uses this information to learn capabilities of the first access router (e.g., bandwidths supported, security schemes, and the like) for use in future handoff decisions, and exchanges capability information with the first access router. The assumption is made based on the exchanged information that the access routers are geographically proximate. When another mobile terminal transitions from one service area to another, the system selects an optimal target access router based on the previously learned information, including the inferred geographic proximity between access routers.

There is provided a handover method for a mobile node (MN) having a mobile IP (Internet Protocol) address in a mobile communication system. When a handover occurs as the MN moves from the area of a first FA to the area of a second FA adjacent to the first FA, the second FA transmits a Binding Update message including the IP address of the second FA and an acknowledgement request to the first FA. In response to the Binding Update message, the first FA transmits a Binding Acknowledge message to the second FA, including a field indicative of the IP tunneling capability of a router connected to a corresponding node (CN) to which the MN connects a call.

A basic feature of the invention is to rely on an AAA infrastructure to “bootstrap” the HMIPv6 service for a mobile node (130) that “roams” in a visited network or the home network. In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, bootstrapping the HMIPv6 service involves authenticating and authorizing the mobile node (130) for HMIPv6 service based on an AAA infrastructure. In an important scenario, the mobile node is roaming in a visited network, and the AAA infrastructure (110, 120, 122) links the visited network with the home network of the mobile node. The invention also supports the possibility of having the MAP (125) located in the home network or other network than the visited network. The reliance on the AAA infrastructure preferably involves transferring HMIPv6-related information required for authenticating and authorizing the mobile node for HMIPv6 service over the AAA infrastructure.

Methods and apparatus for supporting a session in Mobile IP are disclosed. A Mobile Node sends a first Mobile IP message identifying the Mobile Node to a Home Agent, wherein the first Mobile IP message indicates to the Home Agent that the Mobile Node is requesting dynamic configuration of a Mobile-Home authentication key to be shared between the Mobile Node and the Home Agent during the session. A Mobile-Home authentication key to be shared between the Home Agent and the Mobile Node is obtained or generated by the Mobile Node and the Home Agent, where the Mobile-Home authentication key is not valid after the session has ended or during another session. The Home Agent allocates a home address to the Mobile Node for the session. The Home Agent then sends a second Mobile IP message to the Mobile Node, the second Mobile IP message including the allocated home address for the session and a lifetime associated with the session, wherein the lifetime indicates a lifetime of the key, thereby enabling the Mobile Node to register with the Home Agent using the allocated home address and the Mobile-Home authentication key to be shared between the Home Agent and the Mobile Node during the session for the allocated home address.

A system for handing off a mobile node includes a mobile node and a target agent. The mobile node can communicate with an anchor agent, and can also be handed off from the anchor agent. The mobile node can establish a physical-layer connection between the mobile node and a target base station associated with the target agent. Also, the target agent can establish a tunnel between the target agent and the anchor agent. Thereafter, the mobile node can establish a link-layer connection between the mobile node and the target agent via the anchor agent and the tunnel. Then, the mobile node can register with the target agent to thereby bind the mobile node to the target agent such that data packet(s) pass through the target agent, across the link-layer connection and the physical-layer connection, and independent of the anchor agent and the tunnel.

In a Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network and a method of applying a mobile IP to the MPLS network, the method includes: performing label assignment using a label-tunnel configured by doubly stacking a label between a first edge router and a second edge router upon a Mobile Node (MN) moving from a position of the first edge router to a position of the second edge router; and including label mapping information based on the assigned label in a registration request message in the second edge router, and transmitting the included label mapping information from the second edge router to the first edge router.

Methods and apparatus for dynamically generating a set of Mobile IP keys are disclosed. The set of Mobile IP keys is dynamically generated using an existing HLR / AuC authentication infrastructure. This is accomplished, in part, by obtaining an International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) that uniquely identifies a particular Mobile Node. Once a set of Mobile IP keys is generated from authentication information associated with the IMSI, the Mobile Node may register with its Home Agent using the set of Mobile IP keys.

Methods and apparatus for supporting the management of mobility and addresses by a Customer Premises Edge (CPE) router in a Mobile IP environment are disclosed. When a network prefix is allocated by a DHCP router to the CPE router, the CPE router divides the network prefix among its interfaces, and allocates home addresses to Mobile Nodes connected to its interfaces, as appropriate. The CPE router also assists in performing Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) to ensure that a home address that has been allocated has not already been assigned to another node. Upon completion of registration of a Mobile Node that is connected to one of the interfaces of the CPE router with its Home Agent, the CPE router assists in routing traffic to the Mobile Node. In addition, the CPE router assists in notifying nodes when one of the Mobile Nodes has moved, as well as when one of the Mobile Nodes has de-registered with the Home Agent.

A new extensions structure for mobile IP control message extensions is employed to conserve the type field. Certain types of extensions, such as network access identifiers, are initially aggregated and subtypes are employed to identify the precise content of the extension (e.g., mobile node network access identifier, home agent network access identifier, foreign agent network access identifier, etc.). Long and short formats for the new extension structure are defined, with the long format applicable to nonskippable extensions carrying more than 256 bytes and the short format backwards compatible with currently defined skippable extensions with less than 256 bytes of data. This will greatly reduce usage of the type field.

A system for handing off a mobile node includes a mobile node and a target foreign agent. To effectuate a handoff of the mobile node from an anchor foreign agent to the target foreign agent, a tunnel can be established therebetween such that data packet(s) sent between the mobile node and a correspondent node pass between the target foreign agent and the anchor foreign agent through the tunnel. After the tunnel is established, the mobile node can register with the target foreign agent to thereby bind the mobile node to the target foreign agent such that data packet(s) sent between the mobile node and the correspondent node pass through the target foreign agent to the correspondent node independent of the anchor foreign agent and the tunnel. Thereafter, the target foreign agent can close the tunnel between the target foreign agent and the anchor foreign agent.

A mobile agent device in a Mobile Virtual Private Network, said device comprising: termination of Mobile IP tunnel (6) from a remotely connecting Mobile Node (1); termination of an IPSec VPN tunnel (7) from the remotely connecting Mobile Node; dynamic Selection of Internal Mobile IP Home Agent based on user Authentication; tunneling of traffic to and / or from the assigned Internal Mobile Home Agent for this Mobile Node; and, provision of extended authentication, after Mobile IP connection establishment, and during the VPN negotiation phase, based on extra user credentials, one-time-password mechanism or similar.

A communication method and apparatus using the IP address of a gateway for an MN in a VPN are provided. When the MN is to access the VPN, the gateway acting an FA in the VPN performs a Mobile IP registration on behalf of the MN and is allocated a HoA for the MN from an HA. Therefore, the number of addresses required for the Mobile IP registration of the MN is reduced and overlap between an IP-in-IP tunnel for Mobile Internet and an IPsec tunnel for the VPN is avoided. As a result, packet transmission overhead is reduced.

A clusterhead of a tree-based, mobile ad hoc network includes a mobile IP proxy resource for registering a received binding update request from a mobile ad hoc router within the network, creating a first mobile IP tunnel with the mobile ad hoc router, sending a second binding update request to a remote home agent of the mobile ad hoc router, and initiating a second mobile IP tunnel between the clusterhead and the home agent. If a packet received from the mobile ad hoc router specifies a destination determined as reachable within the mobile ad hoc network, use of the second mobile IP tunnel is minimized by outputting the packet toward the destination according to the mobile ad hoc routing protocol. If the packet is not reachable within the mobile ad hoc network, the packet is forwarded via the second mobile IP tunnel to ensure packet transmission is topologically correct.

A routing method for routing data packets from a source terminal to a destination terminal via at least one communication network, said at least one communication network comprising at least one mobility agent entity for each of said terminals, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a route from the source via at least one first mobility agent, at least two consecutively arranged second mobility agents, to said destination, deciding that said route is to be optimized, rerouting said route from one of said at least one first mobility agents directly to one of the at least two consecutively arranged second mobility agents such that at least one intermediate mobility agent in said route is bypassed in the resulting rerouted route.

A method of delegating responsibility for an IP address owned by a first IP network node to a second IP network node, at least a part of the IP address being derivable from a public key of a public / private key pair belonging to the first node. The method comprises notifying the first node of a public key of a public / private key pair belonging to the second node, at the first node, signing the public key of the second node with the private key of the first node to provide an authorisation certificate, and sending the authorisation certificate from the first node to the second node, wherein the authorisation certificate is subsequently included with messages relating to said IP address and signed with the private key of the second node, sent from the second node to receiving nodes, and is used by the receiving nodes to verify the second node's claim on the IP address.

The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for providing radio access in a communication system by inter-working between at least two packet-based networks, such as heterogeneous cellular networks including a cellular network and an Internet Protocol (IP)-based wireless data network. The method includes enabling a packet routing path across the cellular and wireless data networks to provide a quality of service metric and an indication for mobility information associated with a user of a mobile device. The method further comprises transferring the quality of service metric and the indication for mobility information on the packet routing path in response to a service request across the networks. To provide wireless radio access, an IP-based communication system may use a wireless router, such as a base station router (BSR) and an inter-working unit. The inter-working unit may enable a packet routing path to provide a Quality of Service (QoS) metric and an indication for mobility information, such as mobility context information, associated with a user of a mobile device. In this way, instead of using a Mobile-IP client of the mobile device, the inter-working unit may provide radio access to the cellular network and the wireless data network using the wireless router.