A mobile station (MS) that sends a request message for establishing only one PDN connection which provides connectivity to a PDN associated with an APN, the PDN connection being used only for a communication between an external gateway device (EGD) and a plurality of terminal devices which include said at least one terminal device. The MS receives the APN, an EPS bearer ID, and an address block, the address block being allocated by the EGD to the PDN connection, and the EPS bearer ID being allocated to the PDN connection. The MS allocates an IPv6 prefix based on the address block to the at least one terminal device, and transfers, based on the EPS bearer ID, user data as a router from the at least one terminal device to the PDN associated with the APN via the PDN connection, wherein the user data being transferred from the terminal devices using an IP address configured based on the assigned IPv6 prefix.

Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and apparatuses for enabling data path selection. In an EPG, ILNP mobility signaling is received. The ILNP signaling may include a destination locator for a BNG. A signaling message is sent to the BNG in response to the received ILNP signaling. An acknowledgement is received from the BNG. Traffic is tunneled between a mobile device and a RGW over a LTE interface. In a BNG, a signaling message is received. A message is sent to a SDN controller. A notification is received from the SDN controller that configuration of a RGW to tunnel traffic over a LTE interface is complete. An acknowledgement is sent to an EPG. In a RGW, a message is received from a SDN controller. Traffic is tunneled between a NAS and an EPG over a LTE interface based on the message received from the SDN controller.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems, devices, and methods for determining the Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address and the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) address of a purported end user device to use for detection and filtering of invalid traffic (IVT). In an exemplary embodiment, a method comprises receiving, at a domain only supporting IPv4, a request from the purported end user device over a network, wherein the purported end user device comprises an IPv6 address and an IPv4 address. The method further comprises redirecting, by the domain only supporting IPv4, the request to a domain supporting IPv6. The method further comprises measuring ad traffic and/or performing user tracking using the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and fulfilling the request from the purported end user device.

Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for extracting information associated with one networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), based on information associated with a different networking transmission protocol, such as Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv4). More specifically, when resolving an IP address for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) through which a content file may be obtained, the system may base the resolved URL on attributes of an IPv4 address extracted from an IPv6 address for a machine associated with the request. In one particular example, a geographic location of a requested computing device or machine may be determined or estimated based on an IPv4 address extracted from an IPv6 address associated with the request.

In one embodiment, a device in a network determines whether a destination address of a packet received by the device is within a neighbor discovery (ND) cache of the device. The device determines whether the destination address is not in a set of addresses used to generate an address lookup array or possibly in the set of addresses used to generate the address lookup array, in response to determining that the destination address of the packet is not within the ND cache. The device performs address resolution for the destination address of the packet, in response to determining that the destination address of the packet is possibly in the set of addresses used to generate the address lookup array.

A method for a client device to obtain an IP address in order to access a network resource via at least one IP network. The method includes: inserting, in a request for obtaining an IPv6 address in order to access the network resource intended for a DNS server, a piece of information representing an IP address type expected by the client device of the DNS server in response to the obtaining request if the network resource has an IPv4 connectivity; and sending the obtaining request to the DNS server.

A method, system and device for implementing hybrid networking and a computer storage medium, herein the method includes: a femto cell sending an IP type to which the femto cell belongs to a femto cell gateway (601); the femto cell gateway acquiring the IP type to which the femto cell belongs, and acquiring IPV4 addresses and/or IPV6 addresses sent by an MME (602); the femto cell gateway sending an IP address matched with the IP type to which the femto cell belongs to the femto cell (603); and the femto cell acquiring the IP address sent by the femto cell gateway, and setting up a service bearer according to the IP address (604).

Method and apparatus for monitoring the status and location of personnel using a remote timer. In some embodiments, a method includes logging in, through a network accessible device, a geo position of a subject to initiate a monitored session associated with the subject. A countdown timer of a remote server is initiated to denote a monitored time interval, the remote server in communication with the network accessible device over a network. A notification is generated and transmitted across the network to a monitoring device responsive to a conclusion of the monitored time interval.

Solutions to packet forwarding along a service function path (SFP) by using packet-based transport are provided, where the destination address field in the transport tunnel packet header designates the SFP and the source address field contains the service context. Forwarding of packet flows in different SFPs is simplified by using conventional packet routing and forwarding mechanisms and commercial off-the-shelf routers and switches. For example, route aggregation, load balancing, equal cost multipath routing, and fast path restoration can be applied to service function paths.

A Segment Routing over Internet Protocol version 6 (SRv6)-based data processing method includes a first network device generating a slice locator, where the slice locator includes a target argument. The slice locator is used to identify an addressable destination address prefix in a slice supported by the first network device, and the target argument is used to indicate that the slice locator is associated with at least two slices supported by the first network device. The first network device sends the slice locator to a second network device, so that the second network device generates, based on the slice locator, at least two target slice locators corresponding to the at least two slices.