Patent ID: 8620307

Claim:
A method comprising: executing a first selection routine in a mobile node for considering at least one first policy on access interface allocation; executing a second selection routine in the mobile node for considering at least one second policy on source address allocation to select a source address from two or more home addresses simultaneously in use by the mobile node, the access interface allocation and the source address allocation being for a communication between the mobile node and a network node in a communication system, wherein at least one first output of the first selection routine is inputted into the second selection routine or at least one second output of the second selection routine is inputted into the first selection routine; and causing a packet to be sent from the mobile node toward the network node, the packet comprising a packet source address that is the source address selected via the second selection routine; wherein the second selection routine considers a predefined policy on parameters that are associated with the mobile node, and wherein the second selection routine considers at least one parameter that associates with at least one of multiradio scheduling, power source, quality of service, or a type of the mobile node.