Patent ID: 8472415

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a first node, first data and second data, wherein the first data and the second data are associated with a mobile node, wherein the mobile node includes a plurality of sessions for sending data through a layer 2 connection to the first node; determining a flow for each session in the plurality of sessions received at the first node using a flow determiner; assigning a label to each session in the plurality of sessions, wherein the assigned label is based on the type of flow for each session; determining a first data session in the plurality of sessions for the first data and a second data session in the plurality of sessions for the second data, wherein the first data session is different than the second data session; determining a first label for the first data session and a second label for the second data session, wherein the first label is different than the second label; sending a first packet including the first data and the first label to a second node, wherein the first packet is routed from the first node to the second node using the first label, wherein the second node uses the first label to determine a first performance treatment to apply to the first data; and sending a second packet including the second data and the second label to the second node, wherein the second packet is routed from the first node to the second node using the second label, wherein the second node uses the second label to determine a second performance treatment to apply to the second data, wherein the first performance treatment and the second performance treatment are different.