Centralized Policy Management for Mobile Network Resource Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile network systems face challenges in efficiently managing and applying policy rules across different cell types and locations, leading to suboptimal bandwidth distribution and resource utilization.
Innovation Solution
A network device receives location information from a base station, determines the cell type, and sends a notification to another device to apply specific policy rules to user equipment, eliminating the need for storing cell types and rules locally, allowing for dynamic policy application based on cell conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If policy rules are applied in a mobile network to manage bandwidth and resources, then network resource utilization is improved, but device complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the policy rule storage and management functions from individual network devices and centralizes them in a dedicated policy management system. This allows policy rules to be defined, stored, and distributed centrally, reducing the complexity and storage requirements at each network device while maintaining comprehensive policy control across the network.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a policy management system as an intermediary between network devices and policy rules. This intermediary component handles the complexity of policy rule creation, storage, and distribution, allowing network devices to apply policies without directly managing the complex rule sets, thus reducing device complexity while improving resource utilization.
2Productivity
If policy rules are applied in a mobile network to manage bandwidth and resources, then bandwidth distribution is improved, but storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts policy rule storage from distributed network devices and centralizes it in a dedicated policy management system. This centralization improves bandwidth distribution through coordinated policy application while reducing the storage burden on individual network devices, as they only need to cache or reference policies rather than store complete rule sets.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal policy management system that serves multiple network devices and multiple policy rules from a single centralized storage location. This multi-functional system allows the same storage infrastructure to support bandwidth management, resource allocation, and other policy-based functions across the entire network, improving bandwidth distribution without proportionally increasing total storage requirements.
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AI summary
A network device receives, from a base station included in a network, location information associated with a user equipment included in the network. The network device determines, based on the location information, a cell type associated with a cell that is associated with the base station. The network device transmits, based on determining the cell type, a notification to a second network device included in the network, where the second network device, based on receiving the notification, determines a policy rule associated with the cell type, and where the second network device transmits the policy rule.