Carrier-Driven Bearer Path Selection for Network Resource Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern communication devices often select bearer paths sub-optimally based on predefined preferences rather than actual performance, leading to inefficient data routing, especially when user equipment (UE) is faced with multiple available paths.
Innovation Solution
Implementing carrier-driven bearer path selection, where carrier policies analyze various criteria to determine the optimal bearer path, allowing the carrier to designate and prioritize paths based on performance, usage, and other factors, ensuring compliance with carrier policies, both internally and externally within the UE.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If predefined preference-based bearer path selection is used, then device operation simplicity is maintained, but communication efficiency deteriorates due to sub-optimal path selection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a policy compliance component as an intermediary between the UE's bearer path selection mechanism and the carrier's policy requirements. This component receives bearer path selection information, evaluates compliance with carrier policies, and provides compliance indicators without fundamentally altering the UE's existing selection logic, thus improving efficiency while maintaining operational simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables carrier policies to self-evaluate compliance with bearer path selections automatically. The policy compliance component continuously monitors and assesses whether selected bearer paths meet carrier-defined criteria, allowing the system to adapt to changing network conditions and policies without manual intervention while maintaining device simplicity
2Reliability
If carrier-driven bearer path selection is implemented, then resource management is improved, but device complexity increases due to policy compliance requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the policy compliance component pre-evaluate bearer path selections against carrier policies before actual communication occurs. This allows the system to identify and flag non-compliant paths in advance, ensuring reliable resource management while keeping the complexity manageable through proactive rather than reactive compliance checking
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the policy compliance component provides compliance indicators back to the bearer path selection process. This feedback loop enables continuous improvement of resource management by learning from past selections and adjusting future decisions based on policy compliance outcomes, balancing reliability with controlled complexity
3Productivity
If real-time performance-based bearer path selection is used, then communication efficiency is improved, but measurement and detection difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The policy compliance component serves as an intermediary that simplifies performance measurement by translating complex bearer path performance metrics into standardized compliance evaluations. It receives various performance indicators, processes them against carrier policies, and outputs simplified compliance status, thereby improving data routing efficiency while reducing the difficulty of performance detection
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies parameter changes by transforming multiple complex performance parameters into a simplified compliance indicator framework. Instead of directly measuring and comparing numerous performance metrics, the policy compliance component evaluates bearer paths against policy-defined parameters, making real-time performance-based selection more manageable while maintaining high data routing efficiency
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AI summary
Carrier-driven bearer path selection is disclosed. Carrier-driven bearer path selection enables a carrier to assert bearer path selection policies. Bearer paths available to UEs can be checked for compliance with a carrier's policies. Preferred bearer paths can be designated to the UE for selection. Designation of preferred bearer paths can, in an aspect, be related to route cost, path requests, or path characteristics. In addition, complex bearer path schema can be determined. In an aspect, complex bearer path schema can include asymmetric routing, bonding, and multiplexing. The subject disclosure can enable a carrier to improve management of the carrier's network resources by driving bearer path selection determination to UEs.