Abstract:
In communication systems which include high speed wired local area networks (LAN s) and low speed wireless LANs, the bandwidth of the wireless LANs can be severely impa cted. It has been found that many broadcast or multicast messages which are forwarded to the wireless LANs are not required as the mobile terminals which would receive the m essages are not required to act on them. The present invention provides a means and meth od to filter out unneeded messages so that they do not impact the bandwidth of the wir eless network. Each access point for each wireless LAN maintains a table of parameters for each associated mobile terminal in the connected wireless LAN. The parameters in that table are compared to the parameters in message frames received by the access point an d only those messages having parameters found in the table are put on the wireless LAN. The level of filtering can be controlled by specifying which parameters are to be us ed for filtering messages. The tables at each access point are maintained current by mo ving table entries from access point to access point as mobile terminals move from wireless LAN to wireless LAN and by removing inactive table entries from the table when a predet ermined interval of inactivity is encountered and a terminal is determined to be no long er in active contact with the access point.
Abstract:
In communication systems which include high speed wired local area networks (LANs) and low speed wireless LANs, the bandwidth of the wireless LANs can be severely impacted. It has been found that many broadcast or multicast messages which are forwarded to the wireless LANs are not required as the mobile terminals which would receive the messages are not required to act on them. The present invention provides a means and method to filter out unneeded messages so that they do not impact the bandwidth of the wireless network. Each access point for each wireless LAN maintains a table of parameters for each associated mobile terminal in the connected wireless LAN. The parameters in that table are compared to the parameters in message frames received by the access point and only those messages having parameters found in the table are put on the wireless LAN. The level of filtering can be controlled by specifying which parameters are to be used for filtering messages. The tables at each access point are maintained current by moving table entries from access point to access point as mobile terminals move from wireless LAN to wireless LAN and by removing inactive table entries from the table when a predetermined interval of inactivity is encountered and a terminal is determined to be no longer in active contact with the access point.
Abstract:
A communications network having a number of routers, a number of base stations and a number of mobile units maintains communications with the mobile units by assigning a unique address known to the routing entities of the network to each mobile unit. By including the mobile units unique address in topology updates of the network, the location of the mobile unit at any time is made known to all routers of the network. That is, once a mobile unit moves into a domain of a new access point and establishes a new link with the new access point, it uses the topology update mechanism of the network to make its new location known to all routers. Once a router of the network receives topology update information specific to the mobile unit's new location, it updates its routing table such that packets destined to the mobile unit are routed in a path which terminates at the mobile unit and contains its new access point.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance the functionality of a mobile network device by enabling both mobile and fixed type network devices to cooperate with each other. SOLUTION: According to the level of an access privilege, access to part of web contents which are displayed to a user is selectively provided and different part of the web contents is transmitted for display on a different user- specified device. A proxy entity is introduced between a web server and a user position. A document which is presented to a plurality of users has a policy file in which a plurality of privileged groups are defined. Each privileged group has the right to access a set having a different tag. Each user logs in a given group and makes the proxy discriminate all devices that the user has through service discovery.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an adaptive access protocol by deciding the presence or absence of a hidden node. SOLUTION: If a source address (s) is not contained in a table after detection of a data frame, the address (s) is added to the table (1. 1). In any case, the status of the address (s) is written as 1 (1. 2) showing that the network nodes are included in the range of a node (n), and 0 sometimes shows that the network nodes are excluded out of the range of the node (n). If a destination address (d) of the frame is not contained in the table, the address (d) is added to the table (1. 3). In any case, the status of the address (d) is written as 0 (1. 4). Only the packet that is safely received is used to this algorithm in order to avoid such a case where a hidden node is identified when no ACK is transmitted due to a collision or a transmission error.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system for maintaining routing information based on a unique address to efficiently communicate when a moving object moves between domains. SOLUTION: A communication network having a number of routers, a number of base stations and a number of moving objects allocates the unique address which is known by a routing entity of the network to each moving object to maintain a communication with the moving object. The unique address of the moving object is contained in topology updating of the network, such that all routers can know the location of the moving object anytime. Namely, the moving object moves into a domain of a new access point, establishes a new link with the new access point and then notifies all the routers of its new location using a topology updating mechanism of the network. Each of the routers of the network updates its routing table to be routed within a path including the new access point. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
Abstract:
A communications network having a number of routers, a number of base statio ns and a number of mobile units maintains communications with the mobile units by assigning a unique address known to the routing entities of the network to e ach mobile unit. By including the mobile units unique address in topology update s of the network, the location of the mobile unit at any time is made known to all ro uters of the network. That is, once a mobile unit moves into a domain of a new access point and establishes a new link with the new access point, it uses the topology u pdate mechanism of the network to make its new location known to all routers. Once a router of the network receives topology update information specific to the m obile unit's new location, it updates its routing table such that packets destined to the mobile unit are routed in a path which terminates at the mobile unit and con tains its new access point.
Abstract:
A method of routing packets through a fixed source routing communications network from and to mobile units. With this invention an initial access point is determined when a communications session is established to or from a mobile unit through the network. Location information is updated each time the mobile unit moves out of the range of one access point and into the range of another access point of the network. When packets for the session are to be transmitted to the mobile unit from the wired network, the packets are forwarded from the initial access point to a current access point, which by definition is in the range of the mobile unit. When packets for the session are to be transmitted from the mobile unit and to the wired network, the access point intercepts these packets and routes them to their destination and/or initiates route discovery to those destinations. When packets are to be transmitted between mobiles at different access points. The packets are sent between the current access points and not through the home access points.
Abstract:
In a communications network having a plurality of stations and a shared common communications medium using a collision avoidance media access protocol for communication between the stations; in which medium access is granted to a pair of stations obtaining a successful reservation of the medium; the pair of stations comprising a requester station and a target station, the requester station comprises a primary station, and the target station comprises a secondary station; wherein the primary station coordinates communication to the secondary station; other stations in range of the primary station comprises observing stations; the improvement comprising a method of joining a reservation wherein the primary station invites a selected observing station to participate in communication with it; the selected observing station responding thereto where the primary joins the selected observing station as a secondary station within the reservation in replacement of previous secondary station in the reservation, the primary station thereafter sending data to the replacement secondary station.
Abstract:
In a communication network having a plurality of stations and a shared co mmoncommunications medium using a collision avoidance me dia access protocol for communication between the stations; in which medium access is granted to a p air of stations obtaining a successful reservation of the medium; the pair of stati ons comprising a requester station and a target station, wherein multiple stations may requ est access to the medium to send data, a method of establishing a reservation between stat ionscomprising: the requesting stations sending Request- to-Send (RTS) control frames and the receiving stations responding as appropriate with Clear-to-Send (CTS) contro l frames; wherein a requesting node aborts the reservation if the medium becomes activ e between its RTS transmission and the corresponding CTS response of its target statio n; performing arbitration by stations receiving the RTS transmission as follows: if a rece iving station receives multiple Request-to-Send (RTS) control frames directed to the recei ving station during a contention period, the receiving station responds to the last RTS c ontrol frame received by transmitting Clear-to-Send (CTS) control frames; if the receivin g station receives multiple RTS control frames directed to different receiving station s during a contention period, the receiving station will respect the first RTS control frame received.