5G Site Status Dashboard for Real-Time Cell Site Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
The rapid scalability and dynamic nature of 5G wireless networks make it challenging to maintain an up-to-date summary of network status and quickly identify issues, leading to potential service interruptions.
Innovation Solution
A data management system that collects, processes, and generates real-time dashboards and reports on network status using machine learning models, time series analysis, and user interactions to provide accurate and insightful summaries of network components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If virtual components are rapidly deployed and scaled in 5G networks, then network scalability and adaptability are improved, but maintaining up-to-date network status monitoring becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a dashboard system as an intermediary layer between the complex virtualized network components and network operators. This dashboard aggregates status information from multiple virtual components (CU, DU, RU, cloud services) and presents a unified, simplified view, making it easier to monitor network status without being overwhelmed by the underlying complexity of rapidly scaling virtual infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines status monitoring for diverse network elements (physical cell sites, virtual network functions, cloud-based services) into a single integrated dashboard interface. By merging these previously separate monitoring functions into one unified system, the patent reduces the overall complexity of network status monitoring while maintaining comprehensive visibility across the scalable virtualized infrastructure.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive status data is collected from all network components, then measurement precision is improved, but data processing and dashboard accuracy become more difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the comprehensive network status data into distinct categories corresponding to different network layers (physical cell sites, virtual network functions, cloud services). Each segment is processed and monitored independently through dedicated dashboard modules, reducing the complexity of handling all data simultaneously while maintaining precise measurement of each individual component's status.
Solution Approach 2:
The dashboard system acts as an intermediary processing layer that receives comprehensive status data from all network components, applies filtering and aggregation rules, and presents refined, accurate information to operators. This intermediary layer simplifies the data processing burden while preserving measurement precision by systematically organizing and validating the comprehensive data set.
3Reliability
If real-time monitoring of all network components is implemented, then reliability is improved, but system complexity and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements real-time monitoring with different levels of detail and update frequencies tailored to each network component's criticality and characteristics. Critical components (e.g., cell sites) receive continuous detailed monitoring, while less critical elements receive periodic or event-driven monitoring. This localized approach to monitoring quality maintains high reliability for essential services while reducing overall system complexity and computational requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring system dynamically adjusts its behavior based on network conditions, component criticality, and operator priorities. The dashboard can shift between comprehensive real-time monitoring and summarized periodic reporting modes, allowing the system to maintain high reliability when needed while reducing complexity during normal operation. This dynamic adaptation enables the system to balance reliability requirements against computational resources.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, devices, and automated processes are described to provide collection of wireless network status data, such as for a 5G or other mobile network, and to automatically created user interactable dashboards providing various status information regarding the operation of the network. Systems and automated processes may obtain status data from a plurality of network components, for example radio units (RU), distributed units (DU), and centralized units (CU) associated with a cell sites, determine an operational state for each of the network components based on the obtained data, aggregate the determined operational states to determine an operational state of the cell sites, generate a dashboard having an indication of the operational states, provide the dashboard to a user interface, receive a user selection from the dashboard, and provide a report detailing the determined operational state.