Patent ID: 8315218

Claim:
A method for registering a mobile router in an Internet Protocol version 6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) network, comprising: detecting movement into a wireless network through the reception of a beacon message by the mobile router; sending, by the mobile router, a Router Solicitation (RS) message to a gateway requesting registration in the wireless network so that the gateway can acquire an address of the mobile router from the RS message, store the acquired address, and assign a new address to the mobile router for use in the wireless network; receiving, by the mobile router, a Router Advertisement (RA) message comprising assigned address information and gateway address information from the gateway; and acquiring, by the mobile router, the assigned address information and the gateway address information from the RA message, wherein the address of the mobile router comprises at least one of a Medium Access Control (MAC) address acquired from a MAC header in the RS message and a source link-local address acquired from an IP header in the RS message.