Adaptive Wake-Up Period Control for Communication Energy Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques for facilitating energy and communication efficiency in communication networks, such as Discontinuous Reception (DRX) and Wake-Up Signals (WUS), may not optimize efficiency effectively.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus with adaptive control capabilities that can regulate its operational configuration based on input signals indicating device status, allowing for the skipping or extending of wake-up periods to optimize energy and communication efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If conventional DRX and WUS techniques are used, then energy efficiency is partially improved, but efficiency optimization is not optimal
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of wake-up period operational configuration based on real-time device status. The apparatus adaptively controls whether to skip or extend wake-up periods by comparing the wake-up period timing with the device's activated/deactivated periods, thereby optimizing energy efficiency dynamically rather than using fixed conventional DRX/WUS approaches
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the operational configuration parameters of the wake-up period based on device status. By receiving input signals indicating device status (activated or deactivated periods) and adjusting the wake-up period configuration accordingly, the system optimizes energy efficiency through parameter adaptation rather than static configuration
2Reliability
If wake-up periods are extended to ensure data access availability, then data access reliability is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts the wake-up period configuration parameters based on device status. When the device is in deactivated period, the apparatus skips wake-up periods to reduce power consumption. When the device is in activated period, the apparatus extends or maintains wake-up periods to ensure data access availability, thereby optimizing the balance between reliability and power consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different wake-up period configurations to different time segments based on device status. Instead of using a uniform wake-up period configuration, the system locally adapts the wake-up period duration and timing to match the device's activated/deactivated periods, ensuring data access reliability during activated periods while minimizing power consumption during deactivated periods
3Use of energy by moving object
If wake-up periods are skipped to reduce power consumption, then energy efficiency is improved, but data access delay increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically changes the wake-up period configuration parameters based on device status. The apparatus receives input signals indicating whether the device is in activated or deactivated periods and adjusts the wake-up period timing accordingly. This ensures that wake-up periods are skipped only when the device is deactivated (avoiding unnecessary power consumption) while maintaining wake-up periods when the device is activated (minimizing data access delay)
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AI summary
An apparatus is capable of receiving at least one input signal indicative of at least one device status. The apparatus can include a receiver and a processor. The receiver can be configured to receive the at least one input signal, and the processor can be configured to perform at least one processing task in association with adaptive control-based processing in a manner so as to adaptively control operational configuration associated with the apparatus based on the at least one input signal. Operational configuration associated with the apparatus can be associated with at least one wake-up period, and operational configuration associated with the apparatus can be capable of being adaptively controlled by skipping at least one wake-up period and/or extending at least one wake-up period.