Ntt Mobile Communications Network, Inc.

Ntt Docomo, Inc.

Yukichi Saito

Hiroshi Nakamura

Motoshi Tamura

Akihisa Nakajima

Hideo Morita

Kazuhiro Watanabe

Keisuke Suzuki

Masami Yabusaki

Hiroshi Kawakami

Yasuo Maruyama

Tomoyuki Ohtani

Kazuyuki Kozu

Hiroki Morikawa

Fumiaki Ishino

Teruki Niwa

Tokuro Doi

Hisakazu Uesaka

Daisuke Akiyama

A communications system includes a memory storing a table in which information identifying each server is associated with information identifying a plurality of switching devices, a communication incapability detector for detecting that a given switching device cannot relay data destined for a given server transmitted from a mobile terminal to the given server, a selector for selecting, based on the detection, a switching device other than the given switching device from among a plurality of switching devices associated with the given server, by referring to the table and information identifying the given server, and a transmitter for transmitting data to the selected switching device.

Communications system, communications device, and communications method

An address structure in mobile communications network facilitating routing of a packet. At the initial position of the address, is located a prefix or the like indicating the type of the address structure, which indicates the present mobile communications network system, for example. At the next position, a location address (LA) is located characterizing the present invention. The location address is usually placed at the position of a subnetwork address. The location address (LA) is provided for each mobile switching system, and constitutes part of an IP address of a user using a mobile station under the control of the mobile switching system. At the final position, is located a user identifier (user ID) which is used for identifying a user, and is provided uniquely for each user. The IP address in accordance with the present invention can be split into the foregoing three sections, part of which includes the location address and user identifier indicating the location of the mobile station in the mobile communications network, thereby enabling the identification of the user in the mobile communications network system and the control of the packet transmission.

Packet transmission method, packet transmission system and packet data transmission medium on mobile communications network system

Control of a packet communications network in a fixed network used by a mobile communications network is performed. (1) A communication hold mode is set for a user when the traffic volume of the user's transmission or reception of a packet per fixed time period is less than a predetermined value. The communication hold mode is defined as &ldquo;although the network resources are released once, a mobile station and a gateway center at an interface with an external network behave to the user side and the external side as though the communication hold mode were maintained&rdquo;. (2) When the user in the communication hold mode restarts the transmission of a packet, the mobile station automatically carries out a recall processing without the intervention of the user, and re-establishes the communication up to the gateway carrier. (3) When the gateway center restarts receiving a packet to the user in the communication hold mode, the gateway center carries out the incoming recall processing without the intervention of the external network, and re-establishes the communication all the way to the mobile station. (4) To accomplish the incoming recall processing, the mobile station makes a location registration when it roams across location registration areas after a transition into the communication hold mode.

Packet communications network

Micro-frame multiplex transmitter

Mobile communication system

A short cell management unit capable of carrying out OAM (operation, administration and maintenance) functions on short cell connection basis (newly defined F7 flow) included in VC (virtual connection) in addition to OAM functions on VC basis (F5 flow) which are defined in a conventional B-ISDN. The F7 flow includes the entire OAM functions such as fault management, performance management, which are included in F4 and F5 flows that carry out the management by causing a standard OAM cell defined in the existing B-ISDN to flow. To implement this, a variable length OAM cell is newly provided as one of the short cells, and a base station and a switching office are newly provided with a short OAM cell/standard OAM cell translator for carrying out mapping between the short OAM cell and the standard OAM cell. Furthermore, a generally used standard OAM processor is used for implementing the management functions (F4 and F5 flow) defined in the standard B-ISDN.

Short cell management unit and method

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Yokohama, Japan

Yukichi Saito