Cellular Broadcast Media Selection for Bandwidth Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cellular networks face a bottleneck in data flow between the cellular network and mobile devices, limiting users' ability to fully exploit advanced cellular capabilities due to inefficient media streaming, where each endpoint device establishes a unique data session, leading to incremental bandwidth usage and inefficient resource allocation.
Innovation Solution
The system determines demand for media programming and selects media programs for broadcasting or multicasting within a cellular network, allocating shared RF bandwidth based on consumer demand, allowing multiple endpoint devices to share the same broadcast stream, thereby optimizing resource usage and reducing individual data sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each endpoint device establishes a unique data session for media streaming, then device-specific service quality is maintained, but network bandwidth consumption increases and resource allocation becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual data sessions into a single shared broadcast session. Instead of each endpoint device establishing a separate data session with the server, the system creates one broadcast session that serves multiple devices simultaneously. This combining of sessions reduces redundant data transmissions and optimizes network resource utilization while maintaining service quality for all participants.
2Power
If advanced cellular networks provide high bandwidth connections, then network capability is enhanced, but bottleneck between cellular network and mobile devices persists
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic session management that adapts to network conditions and device requirements. The system dynamically determines when to use broadcast sessions versus individual data sessions based on real-time factors such as number of participants, content type, and network status. This dynamic approach ensures optimal data flow efficiency by matching the transmission method to current conditions, preventing bottlenecks between the cellular network and mobile devices.
3Ease of operation
If multiple endpoint devices receive individual streams through the system, then each device gets dedicated service, but spectral resource utilization becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual stream deliveries into a single broadcast stream that reaches multiple endpoint devices simultaneously. By merging the service delivery mechanism, the system maintains ease of operation for each device while dramatically reducing spectral resource consumption. The broadcast approach allows one transmission to serve many recipients, optimizing the use of limited spectral resources.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining available media content items and identifying a first number of wireless broadcast channels of a wireless network having a limited channel capacity and adapted to broadcast media content items within a coverage area. A demand for a group of media content items is identified, and media content items are selected according to the demand, wherein broadcasting of the selected media content items within the coverage area does not exceed the limited channel capacity. The selected media content items are assigned to a group of broadcast channels of the first number of wireless broadcast channels to obtain a broadcast channel assignment for the coverage area. The wireless network is configured to broadcast the selected media content items within the coverage area via wireless broadcast channels according to the broadcast channel assignment. Other embodiments are disclosed.