5G-NR API for Cross-Network Analytic Data Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

5G-NR networks face challenges in providing reliable and high-quality service due to congestion, especially when multiple devices access the internet simultaneously, leading to performance issues such as slowed video game performance and increased latency.

Innovation Solution

Implementing APIs and subscription services that enable 5G-NR networks to share analytic data across radio access, transport, and core networks, allowing devices to adjust network settings such as modulation schemes, routing protocols, and application settings to optimize performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple devices access the internet simultaneously through 5G-NR networks, then network connectivity and service availability are improved, but network congestion increases leading to performance degradation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork service capacityVSAvoidnetwork performance quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic network setting adjustments based on real-time analytic data. Devices in the transport network continuously monitor network conditions and dynamically modify routing protocols, modulation schemes, and application settings to optimize performance under varying load conditions, resolving the contradiction between maintaining high service capacity and ensuring reliable performance quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent establishes a feedback mechanism where analytic data from the radio access network is shared with transport network devices, which then adjust their settings based on this feedback. This closed-loop system enables continuous optimization of network performance, allowing the network to maintain high productivity while preventing performance degradation through real-time adaptive responses to congestion conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If network settings are adjusted to reduce congestion and improve performance, then network efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenetwork efficiencyVSAvoidnetwork configuration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables transport network devices to automatically adjust their own settings based on analytic data from the radio access network. The system performs self-optimization without requiring manual configuration or complex centralized control, thereby improving network efficiency while avoiding the complexity overhead that would result from manual management of multiple network parameters.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal interface and data sharing mechanism that can be applied across different network devices and configurations. The analytic data sharing framework and adjustment mechanisms are designed to be broadly applicable, allowing a single system to handle multiple network optimization tasks without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20240121598A1Application programming interface to indicate a device in an access network to share information with a device in a transport network
Publication Date: 2024.04.11 NVIDIA CORP
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AI summary

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques including APIs, subscription services, and controllers to enable one or more fifth generation new radio (5G-NR) networks to share information. For example, a processor comprising one or more circuits can perform an API or subscription service to cause a device in a radio access network (RAN) to share its analytic data with a device in a transport network, and said device in said transport network can use said analytic data to adjust its network settings to improve performance.