Patent ID: 8228935

Claim:
A method that facilitates communication associated with a mobile device, comprising: determining a virtual home agent that serves a specified public data network based at least in part on predefined virtual home agent-to-public data network mapping; and transmitting a message, comprising information identifying the specified public data network, from the virtual home agent to a home home-agent discovered to be associated with the specified public data network to facilitate connecting the mobile device to the specified public data network at a predefined internet protocol space, the mobile device is connected to the specified public data network via a first tunnel created between a first mobile access gateway and the virtual home agent that serves the specified public data network and a second tunnel created between a second mobile access gateway associated with the virtual home agent and the home home-agent, the first tunnel is based on at least one of a client mobile internet protocol or a proxy mobile internet protocol and the second tunnel is based on a proxy mobile internet protocol, wherein the virtual home agent comprises the second mobile access gateway that connects directly to the home home-agent.