A METHOD FOR PROVIDING A LOCAL TRAFFIC SHORTCUT IN A PACKET-ORIENTED MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORK

摘要

A method for providing a local traffic shortcut (LTS) in a packet-oriented mobile communication network comprising the steps of storing in a LTS-database the IP addresses of all devices served by at least one network node of said network along with a node-ID of the respective network node; receiving an IP data packet by a network node and extracting a destination IP-address from the received data packet; querying the LTS-database with the extracted destination IP-address of the received data packet to identify at least one network node for performing a local traffic shortcut (LTS); and establishing an LTS path with the identified network node.