Communication method for a mobile terminal and mobile terminal
View Patent ↗A technique for flexibly performing processes depending on the type of a path for providing an additional service when there are a plurality of paths for providing additional services for the same session between terminals communicating with each other over a network is disclosed. According to the technique, when a mobile terminal (MN 100 ) establishes a QoS path using NSIS to a corresponding node (CN 124 ) on different types of data communication paths, a signaling message including information (MIE) representing the path type is created and transmitted. Each node (QNE) with an NSIS QoS function, which has received the message, identifies a plurality of QoS paths by comparing the MIE, a session identifier and a flow identifier, and performs processing of the QoS paths according to control information (CI) from MNs or/and the policy which the QNE has.
1. A communication method for a mobile terminal having a plurality of interfaces configured to communicate with a corresponding terminal using a plurality of communication paths having a same session identifier, the communication method comprising:
a detecting step of detecting that one of the plurality of interfaces performs a handover and obtain a new IP address; and
a transmitting step of transmitting a signaling message including a path-type identifier to a communication path from the interface detected by the detecting step, the signaling message notifying the path type-identifier to all of signaling nodes on the communication path, the path-type identifier identifying the detected interface and the communication path connected to the detected interface,
wherein said all of signaling nodes are QoS NSIS Entities.
2. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the path-type identifier of the communication path from the interface is identical before and after the handover of the interface.
3. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the path-type identifier is set by the mobile terminal.
4. The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the signaling message transmitted in the transmitting step includes the same session identifier to notify the same session identifier as well as the path-type identifier to said all of signaling nodes.
5. A mobile terminal configured to communicate with a corresponding terminal using a plurality of communication paths having a same session identifier, the mobile terminal comprising:
a plurality of interfaces configured to communicate with a corresponding terminal;
a detecting unit configured to detect that one of the plurality of the interfaces performs a handover and obtain a new IP address; and
a transmitting unit configured to transmit a signaling message including a path-type identifier to a communication path from the interface detected by the detecting unit, the signaling message notifying the path type-identifier to all of signaling nodes on the communication path, the path-type identifier identifying the detected interface and the communication path connected to the detected interface,
wherein said all of signaling nodes are QoS NSIS Entities.
6. The mobile terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the path-type identifier of the communication path from the interface is identical before and after the handover of the interface.
7. The mobile terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the path-type identifier is set by the mobile terminal.
8. The mobile terminal according to claim 5 , wherein the signaling message transmitted by the transmitting unit includes the same session identifier to notify the same session identifier as well as the path-type identifier to said all of signaling nodes.