Patent ID: 9706465
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for selecting an anchor node in a dense network using distributed mobility management (DMM), the method comprising: receiving, at a device, capability information including load information broadcast by anchor nodes in the network; detecting, at the device, one or more of the anchor nodes available for the device to connect to; determining, at the device, whether to handover to at least one of the detected anchor nodes available based on the capability information including the load information; and connecting, at the device, to at least one detected anchor node available when, based on the determination, the capability information including the load information for the at least one of the detected anchor node available indicates the at least one detected anchor node is not overloaded, wherein the at least one of the detected anchor node available is not overloaded when a load thereof indicated by the capability information including the load information would not result in slow data exchange or tunnel establishment.