Cloud-Based Packet Controller for Wireless Network Resource Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for bandwidth in wireless communication systems, driven by the ubiquity of smartphones and data-intensive applications, poses challenges for traditional macrocell base stations, which require higher bandwidth capabilities. Additionally, existing infrastructure struggles to efficiently manage broadband access in homes and businesses, necessitating innovative solutions for enhanced data transmission.
Innovation Solution
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium, such as wires or dielectric materials, to propagate signals without the need for electrical return paths, allowing for efficient data transmission over long distances with reduced loss, using couplers and transceivers to launch and extract guided waves at millimeter-wave frequencies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional macrocell base stations are used to provide wireless coverage, then coverage area is maintained, but bandwidth capability becomes insufficient to meet increasing data demand
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the wireless network into macrocells for broad coverage and small cells (microcells, picocells) for high-bandwidth areas. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously maintain wide coverage while providing enhanced bandwidth capability through distributed small cell deployments.
2Productivity
If small cell deployment is pursued to provide additional mobile bandwidth, then bandwidth capability increases, but infrastructure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs universal small cell base station designs that can function as microcells, picocells, or femtocells depending on configuration and power levels. This multi-functionality reduces infrastructure complexity by using standardized platforms rather than dedicated hardware for each cell type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple small cell functions into unified base station platforms that can simultaneously provide macrocell, microcell, and picocell capabilities. This consolidation reduces the number of separate infrastructure components needed while maintaining flexibility.
3Productivity
If broadband access networks are expanded to serve more homes and businesses, then data access capability improves, but network management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces cloud-based packet controllers and centralized management systems as intermediaries between the physical network infrastructure and end users. These intermediaries simplify network management by providing unified control, resource allocation, and service delivery across distributed broadband access networks.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enables efficient data transmission with reduced propagation loss, eliminates the need for electrical return paths, and supports broadband access, enhancing the capacity of wireless communication systems to meet increasing demand while simplifying infrastructure requirements.
Implementation Method 1
A guided wave communication system that utilizes electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium, such as wires or dielectric materials, to propagate signals without the need for electrical return paths
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a cloud-based communication resource controller that operates by correlating communication requirements, network parameters, end-user device information for a plurality of end-user devices in accordance with the position and trajectory data for these devices to generate correlated end-user and network data. The cloud-based communication resource controller allocates communication resources of a wireless access network for communication to the plurality of end-user devices and controls beamforming by the communication nodes in accordance with the position and trajectory data.