Alcatel Lucent

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nagravision S.a.

Telemaco Melia

Pierre Sarda

Fabien Gremaud

Frederic Thomas

Yacine El Mghazli

Bruno Mongazon-Cazavet

Sabine Randriamasy

Wim Henderickx

Bessem Sayadi

Thierry Van De Velde

Claire-Sabine Randriamasy

Erick Bizouarn

Barbara Orlandi

A method for providing network access to a plurality of user entities through an access point, said access point comprising a LAN interface and a broadband network interface, the method comprising the following steps at a gateway device: establishing a second secure communication link with said access point; receiving an IP address allocation request from one of said plurality of user entities via said second secure communication link; accessing a AAA server to verify whether a successful authentication of said one of said plurality of user entities on the basis of data related to a mobile subscription associated with said one of said plurality of user entities has already taken place; and upon successful verification, completing an IP address allocation scheme with said one of said plurality of user entities and enabling relaying of data between said one of said plurality of user entities and a PDN; wherein said gateway device is adapted to aggregate a plurality of instances of second secure communication links from different access points towards said PDN.

Method and apparatus for providing network access to a user entity

In an embodiment, there is provided a method for the transport of multihoming service related information between User Equipement UE and 3GPP Evolved Packet Core EPC through untrusted non 3GPP Access Network, said method comprising a step of:

Transport of multihoming service related information between user equipment and 3GPP evolved packet core

In an embodiment, there is provided a method for optimization of IP traffic between a User Equipment having access to an IP network via an IP Connectivity Access Network, and an IP connection endpoint in said IP network, for an application allowing a choice in said IP connection endpoint, said method comprising at least one step based on a selection of an IP connection endpoint according to end-to-end IP traffic optimization criteria.

Traffic optimization for IP connection over an IP connectivity access network and for an application allowing a choice of IP connection endpoint

In an embodiment, there is provided a method for handover enhancement for User Equipment UE application layer traffic carried over a mobile network, said method comprising at least one step based on informing said UE of a traffic path change in said mobile network due to said handover, requiring action at application layer level.

Handover enhancement for user equipment application layer traffic carried over a mobile network

In an embodiment, there is provided a method for optimization of application layer traffic carried by an IP connection over a multi-access technology mobile network between a User Equipment UE and an IP connection endpoint in an IP network, the optimization being based on network information provided using a network information service, the network information including path costs capable of indicating preferences in terms of network paths for the IP connection, the preferences in terms of network paths including preferences in terms of access technologies.

Optimization of application layer traffic carried by an IP connection over a mobile network

The invention relates to a method for connecting a mobile node () comprising a plurality of network connection interfaces () to at least one network () using the mobile internet protocol with the following steps for the respective interfaces (): &#x2014;the mobile node () retrieves a local IP address (CoAa, CoAb) and at least one DNS server () address using DHCP on the interface (), &#x2014;the mobile node () stores in a list the at least one returned DNS server () address, &#x2014;the mobile node () queries the at least one DNS server () which has its address stored in the list for home agent service and receives either a 'service not supported' failure notification or the address of at least one home agent () reachable on the interface (),&#x2014;the mobile node () stores in the list the results of the query, either 'service not available' or the home agent () addresses returned for the respective DNS Servers () inquired, &#x2014;the mobile node () obtains a home address (Ho Aa, Ho Ab) on the interface, _13 the mobile node () attempts to perform a binding update for care-of-address (Co Aa, Co Ab) and home address (HoAa, HoAb) towards the at least one home agent () address stored in the previous list and updates its stored list accordingly with respective binding success or binding failure notifications, in case of success, the mobile node () records on the list a fully qualified domain name associated to the interface (). The invention also relates to the associated mobile node and DHCP unit.

Method to connect a mobile node to a network

Techniques for pairing two different security modules that use two different encryption technologies for operation in two different networks include generation and transmission of a secret to both the security modules via their respective communication networks. In one advantageous aspect, one of the security module, which may be prone for duplication or theft, is logically tethered to the other security module via the pairing. For example, after pairing is successfully performed, the first security module may be usable in a wide area network only when its presence in a local communication connection, such as a home network of a subscriber, or a peer-to-peer or a near field communication link, can be detected and verified by the second security module.

Secure smartcard pairing

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a router able to cooperate with a mobile host of a home network for initializing a communication between said mobile host and a correspondent node over at least a first and a second networks, said mobile host comprising at least a first and a second network interfaces able to connect respectively to said first and second networks, said router being further able to: Embodiments of the invention also relate to a mobile host with which the router cooperates.

Initializing a communication between a mobile host and a correspondent node

Some embodiments of the present invention pertain to a method for notifying at least one mobile device of a wireless communication network about an update to a database, wherein the update notification is transmitted to the mobile devices by means of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server.

Notification within a wireless communication network

A method is disclosed, by which a local mobility anchor (LMA) In a proxy mobile IP network can perform address assignment for a mobile node in cooperation with network address translation, so that the mobile node can be configured with a private HoA. In one embodiment, the LMA obtains the NAI of a mobile node (MN) that is: (i) operating as an IPv4 host and (ii) seeking entry to the network as its home network. The LMA identifies a DHCP server located in the network and serving at least one NAT, and sends it a request message in which the ClientId is set equal to the NAI of the mobile node. The LMA receives a private HoA from the DHCP server, which it forwards in a PBA message to a mobile access gateway (MAG) connected to the MN.

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