Communication Device Programmability Capability Indicator Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current 3GPP wireless communication systems face challenges in synchronizing communication software between network nodes and devices, limiting flexibility in implementing new features and optimizing performance without requiring new hardware or standard releases.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves providing programmability capability indicators from communication devices to network nodes, allowing for configuration updates that modify communication behavior, enabling the utilization of new features and capabilities without hardware changes, through mechanisms like FTP, SFTP, or HTTP, and utilizing APIs to control protocol stack functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If communication devices strictly follow standardized protocol specifications, then system reliability and compatibility are ensured, but flexibility in implementing new features and optimizing performance is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication device functionality into standardized protocol stack components and programmable customization layers. The protocol stack handles standardized communication while the customization layer enables flexible feature implementation through APIs, resolving the contradiction between standard compliance and feature flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic programmability to the communication device, allowing the protocol behavior to be modified at runtime through configuration instructions received from network nodes. This enables the system to adapt to new features and optimizations without changing the underlying standardized protocol architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If new communication features and optimizations are introduced through standardization, then device functionality is enhanced, but time to market and deployment complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables preliminary configuration of communication features through network node instructions before full standardization is completed. Network nodes can provide configuration instructions that enable new features in existing devices, allowing premature optimization and feature deployment before formal standard approval.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent allows dynamic changing of communication parameters and behaviors through configuration instructions without requiring parameter changes in the standardized protocol specifications. This enables feature optimization by modifying operational parameters rather than changing the fundamental standardized interface.
3Speed
If communication devices use higher bit-rates for improved performance, then data transmission speed increases, but energy consumption and battery drain worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables dynamic adjustment of communication parameters including bit-rates based on real-time conditions. The programmable customization allows the device to optimize the balance between transmission speed and energy consumption by receiving configuration instructions from network nodes that adapt to current operational requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent facilitates dynamic parameter changes in communication settings such as modulation schemes and transmission power levels. These parameter adjustments allow the system to optimize the speed-energy tradeoff by modifying operational parameters without changing the fundamental communication protocol.
Data Source
AI summary
A communication device (600), a network node (600) and methods for modifying the communication behaviour of the communication device (600) with regards to communication in a network. The communication behaviour is modified by controlling the functionality of the communication device. The communication device performs a method (300) of providing (310) at least one programmability capability indicator (PCI) to a network node (700). The communication device obtains (320) from the network node, configuration instructions provided in response to the provided PCI, and updates (330) the communication behaviour utilizing the obtained configuration instructions. Computer programs and a computer program product are also disclosed.