HANDOVER METHOD, AND MOBILE TERMINAL AND HOME AGENT USED IN THE METHOD

摘要

A technology is disclosed that provides a handover method and the like capable of improving communication efficiency by reducing tunnel overhead between a mobile node and a home agent. The technology includes: a step of transmitting, by a mobile node (UE) 107, a message including a home address allocation request in a network 102 of the handover destination and an allocated first address, to a home agent (HA) via an access router 104 before a handover; and a step of performing, by the HA, a predetermined process based on the received message and transmitting to the UE, a response message including a home address in response to the allocation request.