Abstract: A relay apparatus transfers data sent from a user terminal, to an external network, via any one of paths. A notification apparatus receives first disaster information including area information identifying first areas forecast to be affected by an occurrence of a disaster and prediction information storing, in association with each of the first areas, a predicted intensity value indicating a predicted value of an influence degree of the disaster on the each of the first areas. The notification apparatus generates, based on the first disaster information, second disaster information storing the predicted intensity value in association with each of second areas passed through by the paths. The relay apparatus switches the currently-used path to alternative path when it is determined that the predicted intensity value associated with at least one of third areas passed through by the currently-used path is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.

Abstract: A usage management system includes a first storage and a processor. The first storage stores, for each communication area and for each user, usage restriction information regarding a network device which locates in each communication area and which is used by each user and connectable to a communication network. The processor identifies a location area which is a communication area in which a target network device locates, identifies a target user present in the identified location area, acquires usage restriction information regarding the target network device for the identified target user from the first storage, and controls operations of the target network device in accordance with the acquired usage restriction information.

Abstract: A first apparatus runs a first virtual machine. The first apparatus receives first migration information including a first migration instruction regarding the first virtual machine and a second migration instruction regarding a second virtual machine. The first apparatus receives data for the first virtual machine, and transfers second migration information including the second migration instruction to a second apparatus running the second virtual machine.

Abstract: Access points are grouped into access point groups. An access point group table that stores correlation between the access point groups and the access points and a terminal position table that manages the correlation between the access point groups and a terminal are provided for a position managing server that manages the position of the terminal. An access point notifies the position managing server of the identifier of the access point itself and the identifier of the terminal being connected to the access point. In the position managing server, an access point group to which the access point belongs is found by searching the access point group table. The terminal is registered in the column of “access point group” of the terminal position table.

Abstract: A mobile communication system provided with a home address holding function unit storing one home address, as a representative home address, from among a plurality of home addresses and the rest as subordinate home addresses, a position registration request function unit creating a representative address set and subordinate address sets with the representative home address and subordinate home addresses, acquired from the holding function unit, and a corresponding representative care-of address and subordinate care-of addresses and further sending a position registration request by only the representative address set, and a position registration function unit receiving the representative home address and subordinate home addresses acquired from the holding function unit, creating subordinate address sets from the representative address set relating to the position registration request, and registering the position of the representative address set simultaneously with the registration of the positions of the s

Abstract: A method and system of authenticating a mobile terminal may include using a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) authentication device managed by a mobile virtual network operator, receiving an authentication request sent from the mobile terminal from a relay device via a MVNO base station configured to provide a service of the mobile virtual network operator, where the relay device is located between the MVNO base station or a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) base station configured to provide a service of a mobile network operator and the MVNO authentication device or a MNO authentication device managed by the mobile network operator, and determining whether or not access from the mobile terminal, as a MVNO mobile terminal registered as a user of the mobile virtual network operator, based on the authentication request is permitted.

Abstract: A usage management system includes a first storage and a processor. The first storage stores, for each communication area and for each user, usage restriction information regarding a network device which locates in each communication area and which is used by each user and connectable to a communication network. The processor identifies a location area which is a communication area in which a target network device locates, identifies a target user present in the identified location area, acquires usage restriction information regarding the target network device for the identified target user from the first storage, and controls operations of the target network device in accordance with the acquired usage restriction information.

Abstract: A method and system of authenticating a mobile terminal may include using a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) authentication device managed by a mobile virtual network operator, receiving an authentication request sent from the mobile terminal from a relay device via a MVNO base station configured to provide a service of the mobile virtual network operator, where the relay device is located between the MVNO base station or a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) base station configured to provide a service of a mobile network operator and the MVNO authentication device or a MNO authentication device managed by the mobile network operator, and determining whether or not access from the mobile terminal, as a MVNO mobile terminal registered as a user of the mobile virtual network operator, based on the authentication request is permitted.

Abstract: A terminal control unit and method are provided. The terminal control unit which manages information about a mobile unit which transmits data to a relay unit of transferring data to another relay unit depending on source IP address, includes a terminal communication information storing unit which stores a destination IP address and a terminal identifier for identifying the mobile unit for every relay unit; and a terminal identifier transmitting unit which transmits a combination of the destination IP address and the terminal identifier stored in the terminal communication information storing unit to the mobile unit, upon receipt of a terminal identifier assignment request from the mobile unit, requesting assignment of the terminal identifier to the mobile unit.

Abstract: A wireless LAN control device includes a wireless LAN control unit having a transmitting/receiving unit performing communications with a plurality of wireless LAN access points belonging to different user groups and a wireless LAN connection control unit. The wireless connection control unit executes control of transferring a user authentication request received by the transmitting/receiving unit via one of the plurality of wireless LAN access points and given from a wireless LAN terminal belonging to one of the user groups toward an authentication server that should execute an authentication process in response to the user authentication request, and transmitting an authentication result given from the authentication server in response to the user authentication request to the wireless LAN terminal via one of the plurality of wireless LAN access points.

Abstract: A mobile communication system provided with a home address holding function unit storing one home address, as a representative home address, from among a plurality of home addresses and the rest as subordinate home addresses, a position registration request function unit creating a representative address set and subordinate address sets with the representative home address and subordinate home addresses, acquired from the holding function unit, and a corresponding representative care-of address and subordinate care-of addresses and further sending a position registration request by only the representative address set, and a position registration function unit receiving the representative home address and subordinate home addresses acquired from the holding function unit, creating subordinate address sets from the representative address set relating to the position registration request, and registering the position of the representative address set simultaneously with the registration of the positions of the s

Abstract: In an authentication server, when a mobile terminal is connected with a mobile network constructed by an IP network, a network-connection authentication of the mobile terminal is performed. A setup of a path from the mobile terminal to a home agent according to a mobile IP is performed after the network-connection authentication is performed. A mobile-management-service authentication of the mobile terminal with the home agent is performed after the setup of the path is performed. The authentication server includes a registration part which is configured to register an IP address of the mobile terminal and a domain name of the mobile terminal to a domain managing server which manages IP addresses and domain names.

Abstract: A network connection restoration method of an IP communications system having a radio access network and using Mobile IP for managing the movement of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The network connection restoration method includes the steps of (a) an AAA server selecting a first one of multiple home agents to which one the mobile terminal is to be connected at the time of authenticating the mobile terminal, (b) the AAA server detecting a failure of the selected first one of the home agents by communicating with the selected first one of the home agents, and (c) the AAA server selecting a second one of the home agents in response to step (b) detecting the failure of the selected first one of the home agents.

Abstract: In order to deliver information from an information transmission terminal to multiple user terminals in a specific area regardless of a type of an access network, a system includes managing location information of areas that the plurality of user terminals are located in association with multiple URIs; sending, in response to a first inquiry, the plurality of URIs associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the first inquiry being created based on the location information of the specific area entered from the information transmission terminal; managing the plurality of URIs of the user terminals in association with multiple IP addresses; and sending, in response to a second inquiry from the information transmission terminal, the plurality of IP addresses associated with the plurality of user terminals in the specific area, the second inquiry being created based on the URIs sent in response.

Abstract: The present invention provides a communication system facilitating introduction into an existing network and improving a quality of service of communications. The communication system is configured by connecting a relay device performing wireless communications with a terminal, a management device managing the relay device and a server to each other via an IP network, the relay device has a packet generating unit generating an encapsulated packet containing, as a payload, and transferring unit transferring the encapsulated packet to the management device, and the management device has a receiving unit receiving the encapsulated packet transmitted from the relay device, and a transmitting unit transmitting a predetermined encapsulated packet in the encapsulated packets received by the receiving unit back to the relay device.

Abstract: Access points are grouped into access point groups. An access point group table that stores correlation between the access point groups and the access points and a terminal position table that manages the correlation between the access point groups and a terminal are provided for a position managing server that manages the position of the terminal. An access point notifies the position managing server of the identifier of the access point itself and the identifier of the terminal being connected to the access point. In the position managing server, an access point group to which the access point belongs is found by searching the access point group table. The terminal is registered in the column of “access point group” of the terminal position table.

Abstract: A communication relay apparatus is provided that shortens the time of communication relay during handovers, while reducing the load on communication relay apparatuses so as to enable application to large-scale networks. The communication relay apparatus sets static tunnels only with communication relay apparatuses for which the frequency of handovers is high and with communication relay apparatuses for which the probability of occurrence of handovers is high, and sets dynamic tunnels with other communication relay apparatuses. For communication relay apparatuses with which static tunnels are set, data packets are transferred via the static tunnel; for communication relay apparatuses with which static tunnels are not set, a dynamic tunnel is set, and data packets are transferred via the dynamic tunnel.

Abstract: A large-scale wide area network system includes wireless communication base devices respectively configuring access points covering wireless zones subordinate thereto; wireless communication base control devices performing integrated control of the corresponding wireless communication base devices, and managing IP addresses of the wireless communication base control devices of a home location and a visited location as location information of a mobile terminal; in-area location information management devices respectively connected to the corresponding wireless communication base control devices via respective area IP networks corresponding to areas administered by the same common carrier, and managing the IP address of the wireless communication base control device of the home location as the location information of the mobile terminal; and a wide area location information management device hierarchically connected to the in-area location information management devices via a wide area IP network corresponding

Abstract: To provide a technology of setting up a call at a high efficiency by a location management device's sending notification of a call setup request to a call control device corresponding to a location of a callee communication device. A call control device connected to a location management device via a network receives a call setup request, searches a location data table for location information of a callee communication device in response to the call setup request, sets up, when the location information is searched out as a result of the search, a call on the basis of the location information, and notifies, when the location information is not searched out as the result of the search, the location management device of the call setup request.

Abstract: To provide a technology capable of accommodating, in parallel, wireless networks of a plurality of user groups having different authentication policies etc and providing a proper communication service in response to an access from a user of each of the user groups.