Patent ID: 8107471
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A communication system, comprising: a terminal; a communication apparatus that transmits a care of address of the terminal and channel information, the channel information including a plurality of correspondences between flow labels and QoS information of a plurality of channels established between the communication apparatus and the terminal; an application server that, upon establishing a service session for a flow between the terminal and a correspondent node, extracts session information of the service session and transmits the session information including a flow ID, flow filter information to identify the flow that includes a home address of the terminal, and QoS information of the flow; a server that receives and holds binding information including the home address and the care of address of the terminal from the terminal, and, upon receiving a packet that includes the home address of the terminal as a destination address from the correspondent node, transmits the received packet to the terminal encapsulated with the care of address of the terminal based on the binding information; and a control apparatus connected to the server, the control apparatus receiving the session information transmitted from the application server and holding the received session information with a service table, receiving the channel information transmitted from the communication apparatus and holding the received channel information with a session table, and receiving the binding information from the server, the control apparatus specifying the plurality of channels associated with the terminal within the session table by referring to the home address of the terminal in the service table, the binding information, and the care of address of the terminal in the session table, selecting a channel for the flow from the specified plurality of channels by comparing the QoS information of the specified plurality of channels in the channel information and the QoS information of the flow in the session information using the service table and the session table, the control apparatus transmitting correspondence information between the care of address of the terminal, the flow filter information, and a flow label of the selected channel to the server, wherein the server receives the correspondence information transmitted by the control apparatus, identifies a received packet based on the flow filter information transmitted from the control apparatus and information within the received packet, encapsulates the received packet with the care of address of the terminal, adds the flow label of the selected channel to a header region of the encapsulated packet based on the correspondence information transmitted from the control apparatus, and transmits the encapsulated packet to the communication apparatus, wherein the communication apparatus receives the encapsulated packet from the server and, based on the flow label added to the encapsulated packet by the server, transfers the encapsulated packet to the terminal, and wherein the terminal receives the encapsulated packet from the communication apparatus.