Patent ID: 8675555

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a local mobility anchor (LMA) configured to: maintain a plurality of binding cache entries (BCEs) for a plurality of active interfaces between a mobile node (MN) and a plurality of mobile access gateways (MAGs) comprising a first MAG and a second MAG; and maintain a flow state table with a plurality of binding flow entries for the active interfaces between the MN and the MAGs to distinguish an interface with a flow to direct incoming traffic to the MAGs and MN accordingly, wherein the binding flow entries describe a condition of flows on the active interfaces and associate a flow with the MAG communicating with the MN and an interface corresponding to the flow, wherein the BCEs comprise a first BCE that corresponds to a home interface between the MN and the first MAG and that comprises a first list of home network prefixes (HNPs), wherein the BCEs further comprise a second BCE that is linked to the first BCE, that corresponds to a secondary interface between the MN and the second MAG, and that comprises a second list of HNPs, and wherein the first BCE and the second BCE are associated with a single mobility session.