Base Station Redundancy and Multiplexing for Low Delay Wireless

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication technologies face challenges in achieving both high reliability and low delay, particularly for applications like virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), where existing methods either increase reliability by repeating data on a time axis but incur significant delay or fail to meet the need for low latency.

Innovation Solution

A communication method and device that generate and transmit redundancy information and multiplexing information to enable repeated transmission of data on a frequency axis, using extended trigger frames to specify redundancy, frequency, and sequence information, allowing data to be transmitted through multiple frequency bands, thereby increasing reliability while reducing delay.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If data is repeated on a time axis to increase reliability, then reliability is improved, but delay increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoidcommunication delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from time-axis repetition to frequency-axis repetition. Instead of sending the same data multiple times sequentially in time, the system transmits data across multiple frequency bands simultaneously or in parallel, thereby resolving the contradiction between reliability and delay by changing the dimension of redundancy from temporal to spectral.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If multiple channels are used for simultaneous transmission, then reliability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem robustnessVSAvoidchannel management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The base station generates and manages both redundancy information and multiplexing information using a unified control mechanism. The trigger frame structure integrates multiple functions (redundancy specification, frequency allocation, sequence numbering) into a single control message, reducing overall system complexity while enabling multi-channel transmission.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11956089B2Communication device and communication method
Publication Date: 2024.04.09 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

The present technology relates to a communication device and a communication method that can achieve communication that has high reliability and low delay. Provided is a communication device that constitutes a base station, the communication device including a control unit that performs a control that generates redundancy information regarding a provision of redundancy for transmission data transmitted by a terminal station or the base station, and multiplexing information regarding multiplexing of the transmission data, and transmits the redundancy information and the multiplexing information that have been generated to the terminal station.