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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009

Filed:

Dec. 24, 2003
Applicants:

Koji Omae, Yokohama, JP;

Masahiro Inoue, Yokosuka, JP;

Ichiro Okajima, Yokohama, JP;

Narumi Umeda, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Koji Omae, Yokohama, JP;

Masahiro Inoue, Yokosuka, JP;

Ichiro Okajima, Yokohama, JP;

Narumi Umeda, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

NT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Provided is a mobility management node capable of forming a paging area, without need for management of a migration history at a mobile node and for notification of a migration history from a mobile node to a network. In mobility management node (MAP), mobility managerlets binding cachestore a home address and a c/o address of each mobile node (MN) in correlation with each other. Migration history storagestores a transition frequency of the c/o address stored in binding cachein correlation with prefixes before and after transition. Migration history storagedefines paging area information by a set of prefixes included in combinations containing common prefixes, out of combinations of prefixes before and after transition with each of which a transition frequency over a predetermined reference value is correlated. Paging controllernotifies the MN of this paging area information.


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