Patent ID: 8351349

Claim:
A method for realizing location management of multihomed terminals in Universal Network, characterized in that: if one multihomed terminal associated to Universal Network for the first time, an Accessing-Switching Router (ASR) in Universal Network allocates a Switching-Routing Identifier (SRID) and creates a mapping information for the multihomed terminal, and reports the mapping information to an Identifier Mapping Server (IDMS) in a multihomed terminal's home domain; coming up the IDMS in the home domain memorizes the mapping information, and synchronizes the mapping information within all home IDMSes of the multihomed terminal to finish location registration; and if one multihomed terminal has already associated to Universal Network, when the ASR to which the multihomed terminal attaches detects that a multihomed terminal's access state has changed it modifies the mapping information of the multihomed terminal and reports this changes to the IDMS; then all of the IDMSes in the multihomed terminal's home domains update the mapping information and notify the new mapping information to the ASR of a Correspondent Node (CN) for completing location update, the location registration comprises the following steps: all of ASRs to which multihomed terminals attach allocate SRIDs for the multihomed terminals respectively; each ASR creates the mapping information for the multihomed terminal, the content of the mapping information entry comprises an Accessing Identifier (AID), a SRID, a “function” flag, a “valid” flag, several bits recording the “SRID of the ASR that the multihomed terminal attaches to”, and several bits recording the “SRID of the IDMS in the multihomed terminal's home domain”; therein the “function” flag is set as “redundancy”; interfaces of the multihomed terminal are categorized into a master interface and a slave interface; the “valid” flag is set as “VALID” in the mapping information of the master interface, while the “valid” flag is set as “INVALID” in the mapping information of the slave interface; the ASR reports the mapping information to the IDMS which locates in the multihomed terminal's home domain; and all of IDMSes which memorize the multihomed terminal's mapping information announce the mapping information with each other; thus, the mapping information of the multihomed terminal that memorized in the IDMSes are synchronized.