Method and system for label edge routing in a wireless network

A method comprising:

• establishing a data session between a mobile unit and a serving node, wherein a forwarding information base included in the mobile unit is populated with a label stack associated with the data session;
• determining, at the mobile unit, whether the serving node comprises a foreign agent;
• upon determining the serving node comprises a foreign agent, transmitting information, indicative to a home agent, of an identity of the mobile unit;
• receiving, at the mobile unit, an agent advertisement with label information;
• correlating the label information to the data session, wherein the serving node evaluates a selected one of the label stacks and performs routing at a layer-2 level, and wherein the mobile unit operates as a policy decision point in controlling one or more policy endpoints such that the mobile unit is able to specify differentiated services to individual flows that are aggregated at the mobile unit;
• and
• populating available information in a vendor extension field that is included as part of an agent solicitation message that is sent to the serving node by the mobile unit, whereby the information in the vendor extension field is processed out-of-band with respect to a payload of the agent solicitation message.