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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2007
David Abusch-magder, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Peter Bosch, New Providence, NJ (US);
Milind M. Buddhikot, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Thierry Etienne Klein, Fanwood, NJ (US);
Paul Anthony Polakos, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Harish Viswanathan, Morristown, NJ (US);
David Abusch-Magder, Maplewood, NJ (US);
Peter Bosch, New Providence, NJ (US);
Milind M. Buddhikot, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Thierry Etienne Klein, Fanwood, NJ (US);
Paul Anthony Polakos, Marlboro, NJ (US);
Harish Viswanathan, Morristown, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Paris, FR;
Abstract
The invention includes methods and apparatuses for supporting mobility management and packet routing in ad hoc wireless networks. A method for mobility management includes detecting, at a first base station, a request by a wireless device to establish an association with the first base station where the first base station comprises a mobile base station, updating an association table of the first base station to include an association of the wireless device to the first base station, and propagating, toward a second base station, a message adapted to update an association table of the second base station, wherein the second base station is a mobile base station, wherein the message is propagated toward the second base station wirelessly. The packet routing functions of the present invention may be used independent of, or in conjunction with, the mobility management functions of the present invention.