Patent ID: 7457863

Claim:
A home agent comprising: one or more functional portions of: a central processing unit for performing processing accompanied by a reception of a binding update packet from a mobile node, and a central processing monitor for detecting a usage rate of the central processing unit for the processing; a receiving interface for receiving the binding update packet, a transmitting interface for transmitting a response message associated with the reception processing of the binding update packet, and a line usage rate monitor for detecting a line usage rate of at least one of the receiving interface and the transmitting interface, and a priority table associating a priority of the mobile node with a transmission period of a binding renewal message transmitted from the mobile node; a binding cache processor for renewing a binding cache associating a home address of the mobile node with a care-of address of a moving destination of the mobile node in absence of a change of a care-of address included in the binding update packet; a binding renewal transmission period calculator for determining the transmission period of the binding renewal message transmitted by the mobile node based on at least two or more information of a binding cache number, the usage rate of the central processing unit, the line usage rate, and the priority; and a transmitter for transmitting the transmission period to the mobile node of the care-of address included in the received packet.