System and method for establishing dynamic home agent addresses and home addresses using the mobile IPv6 protocol

摘要

Provided are improved systems and methods for establishing dynamic Home Agent (HA) addresses and Home Addresses (HoA) for mobile stations operating on Foreign Networks according to the Mobile IPv6 standard, thereby providing the ability to dynamically assign IP addresses for mobile stations within a Home Network rather than using static or pre-provisioned IP addresses. The present invention provides new Type 7 Router Solicitation and Type 8 Router Advertisement messages to modify the existing Mobile IPv6 standard. The Type 7 and Type 8 messages enhance Mobile IPv6 to permit a mobile station in a Foreign Network to obtain through the Foreign Network a dynamically assigned Home Agent (HA) address and Home Address (HoA) from the Home Network for the mobile station.