Carrier-Guided Bearer Selection for Venue 5G Priority
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices often prioritize Wi-Fi connections over 5G mmWave and 5G mid-band spectrum, even when these licensed spectrums offer superior user experiences, due to default device settings, leading to suboptimal network usage in venues with 5G capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that allows carriers to instruct mobile devices on a per-user basis to prioritize 5G mmWave, 5G mid-band, or Wi-Fi based on network parameters and user plans, overriding default device settings to ensure optimal connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile devices prioritize Wi-Fi connections by default, then ease of operation is improved, but network performance and reliability deteriorate in venues with 5G capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts network selection preferences based on real-time conditions. The carrier can instruct devices to prefer 5G mmWave or mid-band spectrum over Wi-Fi in specific venues where 5G capabilities are available, while maintaining default Wi-Fi preference in other scenarios. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by making the network selection adaptive rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the network selection parameter (preferred network type) based on location and carrier instructions. Devices receive carrier instructions that modify the default Wi-Fi preference parameter, allowing them to switch to prioritizing 5G licensed spectrum in venues with 5G mmWave or mid-band capabilities, thereby improving reliability without permanently altering device settings.
2Ease of operation
If devices automatically attach to Wi-Fi as priority, then ease of operation is improved, but data throughput and user experience worsen in high-capacity venues
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier performs preliminary actions by providing instructions to devices about network preferences before the devices autonomously make network selection decisions in venues. This preliminary guidance ensures devices are pre-configured to prioritize 5G licensed spectrum over Wi-Fi in high-capacity venues, thereby achieving high data throughput without requiring complex real-time decision-making at the device level.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where carriers monitor network performance and user experience, then adjust network selection instructions accordingly. This feedback loop allows the system to learn from actual throughput performance and refine network preferences to maximize productivity in different venue types.
3Reliability
If carriers implement intelligent network selection instructions, then network performance improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier acts as an intermediary that provides network selection instructions to devices, simplifying the complexity burden. Instead of embedding complex network selection logic directly in devices, the carrier's network element provides guidance instructions that devices follow, thereby improving reliability while keeping device complexity low.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices maintain their default Wi-Fi preference settings and self-serve in most scenarios, only deviating from defaults when carrier instructions are provided. This self-service approach minimizes device complexity by keeping the baseline behavior simple, with intelligent network selection activated only when needed through carrier instructions.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of authenticating a mobile device; receiving a query from the mobile device for a bearer selection from a plurality of bearers; receiving network parameters associated with each bearer in the plurality of bearers; identifying a selected bearer in the plurality of bearers that should be used by the mobile device; and sending an instruction to the mobile device to use the selected bearer. Other embodiments are disclosed.