Base Station Control Device White List Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communication systems, the autonomous distributed manner of selecting parameters by wireless stations leads to suboptimal performance, especially in environments with multiple stations, resulting in degraded communication quality due to terminal station connection switching and increased interference.

Innovation Solution

A wireless communication system with a base station control device that collects connection information, generates a white list of allowed terminal stations for each base station, and transmits this list to restrict connection settings, ensuring efficient communication by stabilizing the connection destination and reducing unnecessary control signals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If terminal stations autonomously select connection destinations in a distributed manner, then system complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but communication quality degrades and reliability worsens due to unnecessary connection switching and interference

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautonomous connection selectionVSAvoidcommunication quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

A base station control device is introduced as an intermediary between terminal stations and base stations. This controller collects connection information from base stations, generates white lists indicating allowed terminal stations for each base station, and transmits these lists to the respective base stations. The terminal stations then refer to these white lists when selecting connection destinations, reducing unnecessary connection switching and improving communication quality while maintaining autonomous operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Device complexity

If terminal stations autonomously select connection destinations, then device complexity is reduced, but the quantity of harmful factors increases due to increased interference and unnecessary control signals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection control mechanismVSAvoidinterference and control signals
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The base station control device acts as a mediator that coordinates connection selections. By collecting connection information from base stations and generating white lists that specify which terminal stations are allowed to connect to each base station, the controller reduces unnecessary connection attempts and control signal exchanges. This intermediary mechanism maintains simple terminal station design while significantly reducing interference and harmful control signals in the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If white lists are generated and transmitted to base stations, then communication quality is improved by stabilizing connections, but device complexity increases due to the addition of the base station control device

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection stabilityVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The base station control device serves as a centralized coordinator that generates white lists based on collected connection information and transmits them to appropriate base stations. This intermediary structure provides systematic connection management and stabilization while keeping terminal stations simple. The controller handles the complexity of coordination and optimization, allowing terminal stations to operate autonomously with reduced decision-making burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The base station control device collects connection information from base stations, processes this information to generate optimized white lists, and transmits them back to the base stations. This feedback loop enables dynamic adjustment of connection assignments based on current system state, improving connection stability and communication quality while distributing the complexity management across the system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12185221B2Wireless communication system, base station control device, communication control method, and communication control program
Publication Date: 2024.12.31 NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE CORP
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AI summary

A wireless communication system includes a plurality of base stations to which one or more terminal stations are connectable, and a base station control device controlling each of the plurality of base stations. The base station control device includes an information collection unit collecting connection information regarding the terminal stations connected to the base stations from each of the base stations, a list generation unit generating a white list indicating the terminal stations allowed to be connected to the base stations for each of the base stations based on the connection information, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the white list to each of the base stations. Each of the base stations includes a reception unit receiving the white list, and a setting unit performing setting so as to allow or inhibit connection of each of the terminal stations to the base station based on the received white list.