Communication Quality Management via Multi-Resource User Accommodation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional network management techniques, such as RACS and RSVP, face challenges in maintaining communications quality due to restrictions on firewall filters and communication bands, leading to potential declines in service quality.
Innovation Solution
A management apparatus that collects information on user accommodation and resource consumption status, estimates resource needs, judges compliance with predetermined conditions, and determines suitable communications devices for user accommodation, considering multiple resource constraints to ensure quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If conventional RACS or RSVP techniques are used to manage communication bands, then communication band allocation is simplified, but communications quality deteriorates due to other resource restrictions such as firewall filters
Solution Approach 1:
The invention changes the management approach from single-parameter (communication band) control to multi-parameter control by introducing comprehensive resource condition checks including firewall filter counts, communication band availability, and other device resources. This resolves the contradiction by expanding control dimensions rather than simplifying to a single parameter.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention segments the resource management process into distinct evaluation stages: first evaluating communication band conditions, then evaluating firewall filter conditions, and finally evaluating other resource conditions. This segmented approach allows each resource type to be managed independently while ensuring overall communications quality.
2Reliability
If multiple resource conditions are evaluated for user accommodation, then communications quality is maintained, but device complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention performs preliminary evaluation of resource conditions before user accommodation decisions are made. By pre-establishing resource threshold values and evaluating conditions in advance (firewall filter count < threshold, communication band availability, etc.), the system maintains communications quality without increasing operational complexity during actual user management.
Solution Approach 2:
The management device automatically evaluates multiple resource conditions and makes accommodation decisions based on pre-set thresholds without requiring manual intervention for each resource check. This self-service approach maintains high communication quality through comprehensive resource monitoring while keeping management operations simple and automated.
Data Source
AI summary
A collection unit (132) collects information about at least either of user accommodation status and resource consumption status from plural communications devices accommodating users who receive communications services. An estimation unit (131) estimates an amount of resource consumption of a first user for whom an accommodation device is to be determined. A judgment unit (133) judges whether each of the communications devices satisfies a predetermined restricting condition, based on the information collected by the collection unit (132) and the amount of resource consumption of the first user estimated by the estimation unit (131). A determination unit (134) determines a communications device judged by the judgment unit (133) to satisfy the restricting condition among the communications devices, as the accommodation device for the first user.