Patent ID: 8437309
Filing Date: 2013-05-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating multihoming in the case of a mobile node possessing an Upper Layer Identifier belonging to a home network, where the mobile node is assigned a Global Mobility Management anchor within the home network and a Local Mobility Management anchor within a visited network, the method comprising the steps of: allocating to the mobile node, a primary Shim for IPv6 (SHIM6) proxy at said Global Mobility Management anchor, and at least one secondary SHIM6 proxy at said Local Mobility Management anchor; enabling only the primary SHIM6 proxy to perform the following: using the primary SHIM6 proxy, sharing the established context with said secondary SHIM6 proxy; and performing locator switching with respect to traffic exchanged between the mobile node and said peer node at one of said primary and secondary SHIM6 proxies.