Bluetooth Frequency Hopping with Reserved Channels Under Interference

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

In existing adaptive frequency hopping (AFH) methods for Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), strong background noise can cause secondary devices to miss frequency hopping switching signals, leading to unstable communication links and low successful communication probabilities between primary and secondary devices.

Innovation Solution

Implement a frequency hopping communication method where the primary device sends switching signaling indicating a first frequency hopping sequence different from the current sequence, ensuring M reserved channels remain unchanged, allowing for seamless switching to the first sequence even if the secondary device misses the signal, thereby maintaining communication stability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Object-affected harmful factors

If adaptive frequency hopping switching signaling is sent to avoid interfered frequencies, then channel interference is reduced, but communication link stability deteriorates when background noise is strong

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel interferenceVSAvoidcommunication link stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining a reserved channel set that both primary and secondary devices will use regardless of interference conditions. This ensures that even when frequency hopping switching signaling cannot be received due to strong background noise, both devices have a guaranteed common frequency resource to fall back on, thereby maintaining communication link stability while still allowing interference avoidance when conditions permit.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If frequency hopping sequence is switched to avoid interference, then transmission efficiency is improved, but successful communication probability deteriorates when switching signaling is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission efficiencyVSAvoidsuccessful communication probability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by creating a specialized reserved channel set with specific properties (pre-agreed frequencies that both devices know) that differs from the general frequency hopping sequence. This local optimization ensures that critical communication functions can occur on these reserved channels even when the main frequency hopping sequence cannot be coordinated due to lost switching signaling, thus maintaining successful communication probability while preserving transmission efficiency on the main sequence when coordination succeeds.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12621020B2Frequency hopping communication method for short-distance wireless communication, and related device
Publication Date: 2026.05.05 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
  • US12621020B2 patent drawing
  • US12621020B2 patent drawing
  • US12621020B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A frequency hopping communication method for short-distance wireless communication between a primary device and a secondary device comprises switching by the primary device from the second frequency hopping sequence to the first frequency hopping sequence at a time point of frequency hopping switching, wherein M reserved channels are between a first frequency hopping sequence and a second frequency hopping sequence; and performing frequency hopping communication with the secondary device based on the first frequency hopping sequence.