Central Module Dynamic Exchange Rules for Mobile Formations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for managing data transmission in a training of mobile devices face challenges in ensuring reliable, effective, and evolving data exchanges amidst changing operational conditions and device compositions.
Innovation Solution
A central module implements a process for building exchange rules within a data flow exchange architecture, which includes negotiation with other communication platforms to ensure reserved flow rates and quality of service for privileged data flows, and dynamically manages transmission conduits to accommodate evolving data exchange needs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data transmission management uses existing methods with fixed routing rules, then implementation is simple, but the system cannot adapt to rapid changes in formation composition and operational conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic exchange rules that are automatically constructed and updated based on current formation composition and operational conditions. The central module continuously monitors changes in the mobile device formation and adjusts data transmission parameters, routing paths, and quality of service requirements in real-time, transforming the static system into an adaptive one that responds to environmental changes without requiring manual reconfiguration
Solution Approach 2:
The central module acts as an intermediary that coordinates data exchange between multiple communication platforms. It receives information about formation changes, computes appropriate exchange rules, and distributes updated parameters to all platforms. This intermediary approach centralizes the complexity of adaptation logic while keeping individual platform implementations relatively simple, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity
2Reliability
If the system guarantees quality of service for all data flows, then reliability is improved, but bandwidth consumption increases and low-priority traffic suffers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies differentiated quality of service policies to different data flows based on their priority and importance. Critical data flows such as strategic information and command communications receive guaranteed bandwidth and strict quality of service parameters, while less important traffic like entertainment data receives best-effort service. This local differentiation of service quality ensures reliable transmission for essential traffic without unnecessarily consuming bandwidth for non-critical flows
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts transmission parameters including bandwidth allocation, priority levels, and quality of service requirements based on current operational context and formation needs. The central module can modify these parameters in real-time, increasing guarantees for critical flows when needed while reducing allocations for non-essential traffic, thereby optimizing overall bandwidth utilization while maintaining necessary reliability
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system establishes fixed transmission paths, then routing is simple, but the system cannot accommodate rapid changes in mobile device positions and operational modes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic routing where transmission paths are not fixed but are continuously reconstructed based on current formation topology and operational requirements. When mobile devices change positions or switch operational modes, the central module detects these changes and automatically computes new optimal paths for data transmission, ensuring routes remain valid and efficient despite dynamic environmental changes
Solution Approach 2:
The central module serves as an intermediary routing controller that manages path selection and reconstruction. It receives routing requests, evaluates current formation state, and determines optimal transmission paths through the network. This centralized mediation simplifies the complexity by consolidating routing intelligence in one location rather than requiring distributed complex algorithms at each node, while still achieving adaptive routing
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for constructing exchange rules in an architecture for exchanging data streams in a formation of mobile machines and to an associated central module. The present invention relates to a method (100) for constructing novel exchange rules in an architecture for exchanging data streams in a formation of mobile machines. The construction method (100) comprises the steps of acquiring (110) at least one novel stream specification defining a new data stream to be transmitted by a current platform, determining (120) a transmission specification comprising the inclusion of each stream specification from a current communication plan and each new acquired specification in the transmission specification, verifying (150) the eligibility of each data stream defined by the transmission and construction specification (160) of a new communication plan of the current platform by including the specifications of all data streams defined by the transmission specification, whose eligibility is confirmed.