摘要:
A wireless access point (200), upon determining (101) that a need exists to support a communication need of a mobile station, acquires (102) a first Internet Protocol (IP) address and automatically transmits (103) a gratuitous Address Resolution Protocol message to a local router to thereby cause the latter to correlate the first IP address to a Medium Access Control address for the wireless access point. In a preferred embodiment the wireless access point can also automatically transmit a registration request to a remote network element (such as a Home Agent) that presents this first IP address as a care-of address to use in conjunction with another IP address that serves as a home address for the mobile station.
摘要:
A wireless access point (102) detects an indicia of a change in wireless connectivity of a mobile station (101) with respect to itself and another wireless access point (103). The wireless access point then automatically effects at least one of establishing a communication between itself and the second wireless access point regarding the change in wireless connectivity and/or establishing a temporary data tunnel as between itself and the second wireless access point. These network elements can also act to automatically establish a data flow path for the mobile station as between the second wireless access point and a network element (such as a mobility management agent (105)) that is external to the common subnet. In a preferred approach this comprises, at least in part, automatically sending a registration request to the network element other than in response to a specific request from the mobile station to send such a registration request.
摘要:
In the present technique of a communication system (100), an address of a forwarding agent (114) linked to a receiver node (112) is detected to provide a discovered address. The discovered address is then used to establish a direct route with the forwarding agent of the receiver node for subsequent communications between a sender node (104) and the receiver node.
摘要:
A method for authenticating a mobile node (102) in a communication network (100) is provided. The communication network includes at least one proxy server and a home server. The mobile node and the home server include a shared key. The shared key uniquely associates the mobile node with the home server. The method at the mobile node includes sending (204) a request for an Internet Protocol (IP) address to at least one proxy server. Further, the method includes receiving (206) a nonce in response to the request, from a proxy server of the at least one proxy server. The method also includes deriving (208) a session key, based on the nonce and the shared key. The session key authenticates the mobile node to initiate a secure communication session with the proxy server.