Access Network Device Context Segmentation for Storage Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current access network devices face significant storage resource consumption and performance degradation due to the need to store individual contexts for each terminal device, especially in scenarios with a large number of connections, such as in 5G networks.
Innovation Solution
The method involves grouping terminal devices based on shared attribute information, where each device has a common context shared among the group and a dedicated context, allowing the access network device to store only one common context per group and individual dedicated contexts, reducing the need to store entire device contexts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the access network device stores a context for each terminal device, then the terminal device can be properly managed and served, but a large quantity of storage resources of the access network device are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the terminal device context into two distinct parts: a common context that is shared by all terminal devices in a group, and a dedicated context that is specific to each individual terminal device. This segmentation allows the access network device to store only one copy of the common context for the entire group rather than duplicating it for each device, thereby significantly reducing storage resource consumption while maintaining the ability to properly manage and serve each terminal device through its dedicated context.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple terminal devices into a group based on shared attributes, allowing them to share a common context. By combining the context management approach at the group level rather than the individual device level, the system reduces the total storage requirements while preserving individual device management capabilities through the dedicated context portion.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the access network device stores individual contexts for all terminal devices, then each device receives personalized service, but the device complexity and performance degrade with large numbers of connections
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the context into common and dedicated segments, the system maintains personalized service capability through the dedicated context while reducing overall context management complexity. The common context handles group-level configurations that apply to all devices, whereas the dedicated context handles device-specific parameters, thereby simplifying the overall management structure even as the number of connected devices increases.
Solution Approach 2:
The common context serves as a universal template that can be applied to all terminal devices within a group, providing a multi-functional foundation for service delivery. This universal context structure reduces the need for device-specific configurations and simplifies the management overhead, allowing the access network device to handle personalized services efficiently through the combination of common and dedicated context elements.
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AI summary
This application provides a communications method and a communications apparatus, to reduce storage resources required by an access network device to store a context of a terminal device. The method includes: The access network device gathers terminal devices that have a same attribute in a group, where a context of each terminal device is divided into two parts: a common context and a dedicated context, the common context is shared by all the terminal devices in the group, and the dedicated context is a context specific to the terminal device. The access network device stores one common context for each group and stores a dedicated context of each terminal device in the group, to maintain the context of each terminal device.