Collective Identifier Encoding for Distributed Node Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
In large-scale distributed systems, the communication volume and memory access load are increased due to the need to gather information from multiple nodes, leading to inefficiencies in communication and processing, particularly when most nodes are in a normal state but a few are in an exceptional state, and existing methods struggle to reduce network traffic and memory access efficiently.
Innovation Solution
An information gathering system that uses an ID gathering mechanism to generate a collective identifier from individual node identifiers and an ID analysis mechanism to restore individual identifiers, reducing communication volume and memory usage by encoding and decoding information using bitwise operations, multiplication, or addition, allowing for efficient data transmission and processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If information from multiple nodes is transmitted individually on the network, then each node's state information can be gathered, but the communication volume and network load increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines individual node identifiers into a single collective identifier that represents multiple nodes. Instead of transmitting separate messages from each node, the system merges their identifiers into one compact representation that can be transmitted as a single message, thereby reducing communication volume while preserving information about all nodes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms individual identifiers into a collective identifier by changing the parameter representation from multiple separate values to a single aggregated value. This parameter transformation allows the system to maintain node identification functionality while significantly reducing the amount of data that needs to be transmitted across the network.
2Reliability
If all node information is transmitted to the receiver, then complete system state monitoring is achieved, but the receiver node's memory access load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential identification information from each node and combines it into a collective identifier. Instead of transmitting complete node state information that would require extensive memory access at the receiver, the system extracts and transmits only the necessary identification elements, thereby reducing the receiver's processing and memory access burden.
3Measurement precision
If individual node identifiers are transmitted separately, then each node can be individually identified, but the network transmission time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual node identifiers into a single collective identifier that can be transmitted in one network message. This merging process preserves the ability to identify individual nodes (through the composition of the collective identifier) while eliminating the need for multiple separate transmissions, thereby reducing total transmission time.
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AI summary
An information gathering system includes: an ID gathering mechanism, provided at a transmitter side node, that generates a collective identifier from one or a plurality of individual identifiers of respective management targets, each of the individual identifiers being generated according to a state of a corresponding management target; and an ID analysis mechanism, provided at a receiver side node, that restores an individual identifier from the collective identifier and specifies a management target based on the restored individual identifier.