Adaptive Hop Patterns for Low-Latency Telegram Splitting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing telegram splitting transmission methods in IoT sensor networks suffer from high latency due to pauses between sub-packets, making them unsuitable for applications where low latency is critical, such as pipe bursts or security monitoring in crisis areas.

Innovation Solution

Implementing different classes of hop patterns with varying latency and interference immunity, including reducing pauses between sub-packets, varying the number of sub-packets, increasing bandwidth, using different data rates or modulation methods, and combining normal and low-delay patterns to optimize transmission for specific applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If telegram splitting transmission method is used to increase transmission reliability in interference-prone channels, then transmission reliability is improved, but latency increases due to pauses between sub-packets

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission reliabilityVSAvoidlatency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the hop pattern adaptable and configurable rather than fixed. The system can dynamically select between normal hop patterns (for high reliability) and low-delay hop patterns (for low latency) based on application requirements. This is achieved through configurable parameters that allow the transmission system to adjust its behavior in real-time, resolving the contradiction between reliability and latency by making the trade-off adjustable rather than fixed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies parameter changes by modifying the hop pattern parameters to create different transmission modes. By changing parameters such as pause duration between sub-packets, number of sub-packets, bandwidth allocation, and data rate, the system can optimize for either reliability or latency as needed. The low-delay hop pattern specifically reduces pause durations and adjusts other parameters to minimize latency while maintaining acceptable reliability through alternative mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If uncoordinated channel access (ALOHA) is used to simplify network operation, then ease of operation is improved, but interference between transmissions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidinterference
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the intermediary principle by introducing the hop pattern as a mediating structure that organizes uncoordinated access. Rather than implementing complex coordination protocols that would reduce ease of operation, the hop pattern serves as an intermediary mechanism that structures transmissions in time and frequency domains. This allows nodes to independently select and use hop patterns without centralized coordination, while the pattern itself provides interference mitigation through time-frequency diversity and pause mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3707839B1Data transmitter and data receiver having low latency for the telegram-splitting transmission method
Publication Date: 2025.09.24 FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG EV
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AI summary

The embodiments form a transmission method. The method comprises a step of transmitting class 1 data from a data transmitter to a data receiver, wherein the class 1 data is transmitted in a manner in which it is divided into a first plurality of sub-data-packets using a first hopping pattern. The method also comprises a step of transmitting class 2 data from the data transmitter or another data transmitter to the data receiver, wherein the class 2 data is transmitted in a manner in which it is divided into a second plurality of sub-data-packets using a second hopping pattern. In addition, non-transmission periods between sub-data-packets that are transmitted according to the first hopping pattern are smaller than non-transmission periods between sub-data packets that are transmitted according to the second hopping pattern.