Patent ID: 8670407

Claim:
A method for route optimization in a proxy mobile internet protocol-based mobility management protocol having a plurality of mobile nodes each having a mobile node address and a plurality of access routers each having an access router address, said plurality of mobile nodes comprising at least a first mobile node having a local mobility anchor and being anchored at a first access router of said plurality of access routers and a second mobile node anchored at a second access router having a second access router address, where the mobile nodes may belong to different local mobility anchors, the mobile node address remaining unchanged as the associated mobile node changes access routers to which it is anchored, said method comprising the steps of: establishing a first binding cache of said first access router in a local mobility anchor, said first binding cache comprising a mapping of one or more of said plurality of mobile node addresses to one or more of said plurality of access router addresses; populating said first binding cache using an approach; updating said mapping of said second mobile node address to a third access router address in said first binding cache in response to a handoff of said second mobile node from said second access router to a third access router; transmitting a packet from said first mobile node via said first access router directly to said second mobile node via one of said second access router and said third access router, based on said mapping of said second mobile node address; and saving the first access router address and an indicator in a second binding cache in a mapped access router of said second mobile node, the indicator indicating that notification has been made to the first access router of association of the second access router with the second mobile node, wherein the approach comprises the steps of: querying neighboring access routers; and obtaining the second access router address from the queried neighboring address routers.