Patent ID: 7864755

Claim:
A mobile node suitable for a packet communication system including a node, a link and a base station that complies with an Edge Mobility scheme, the mobile node belonging to the base station and comprising: a route information reporting unit configured to report route information including a network layer address and a data link layer address of the mobile node to the base station, wherein the route information and an interface from which a packet destined to the mobile node is output are registered in a table of the base station; a route information registering unit configured to obtain information including a data link layer address of the base station from the base station, and register the information in a route control table; a storing unit configured to store the route control table; a packet transmission unit configured to set a data link layer destination address of a packet addressed to another mobile node to be the data link layer address of the base station that is registered in the route control table regardless of a destination network layer address of the another mobile node, and transmit the packet; and a packet reception unit configured to receive a packet transmitted from a source mobile node, wherein when the source mobile node belongs to the base station, the packet reception unit receives the packet in which a destination address of the packet is set, by the base station, to be the data link layer address of the mobile node, and when the source mobile node belongs to a neighboring base station, the base station receives the packet having the data link layer address of the base station as a destination address from the neighboring base station, and the packet reception unit receives the packet in which a destination address of the packet is set, by the base station, to be the data link layer address of the mobile node.