Patent ID: 8081611

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, at a mobility support function (MSF) logic-enabled first edge router in a network including a plurality of label switch (LS) routers, a discovery signal from a first mobile node; registering the first mobile node in response to receiving registration information related to the discovery signal, from the first mobile node, wherein the registration information includes first data including at least one networking parameter for the first mobile node; assigning a mobility label to the first mobile node, including associating the first data with the mobility label; distributing, in accordance with a multi-protocol border gateway protocol, messages describing the mobility label and the first data to a plurality of edge routers including an MSF logic-enabled second edge router, in the network to create a label switched path; and routing communication messages to be exchanged between the first mobile node and a second mobile node, along the label switched path in the network.