Methods for registering a mobile terminal by means of an ip network access router, for managing the mobility of a terminal in an ip network, and for …

2011

The invention relates to methods for registering a mobile terminal by means of an IP network access router, for managing the mobility of a terminal in an IP network, and for configuring a mobile terminal. The invention proposes to assign a multicast group identifier solely to an IP network mobile terminal. Said multicast group identifier enables the creation of: a multicast address that acts a regional temporary IP address of the mobile terminal and is registered with the home agent thereof; and a multicast tree that associated with the multicast address to which the access routers of a remote network, visited by the terminal, subscribe in order to receive the data packets intended for the …