Community Wi-Fi Network Bandwidth Sharing and Coverage Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Local computing networks often have excess network bandwidth capacities that are not efficiently utilized, and existing technologies lack effective methods to share and manage these resources across different geographic locations, leading to uneven network coverage and resource allocation.
Innovation Solution
A community Wi-Fi network system that allows sharer computing devices to share their network bandwidth capacities with consumer devices, using a community management system to collect feedback, generate coverage data, and incentivize potential sharers to join the network, thereby optimizing network coverage and resource allocation across different locations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If local networks share excess network bandwidth capacity with consumer devices, then network resource utilization is improved, but network coverage and performance become uneven across different geographic locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system collects feedback information from multiple consumer devices about network bandwidth capacity and performance at different geographic locations. This feedback is aggregated and used to generate heat maps that visualize network coverage quality, enabling continuous monitoring and adjustment of the mesh network to improve coverage uniformity while maintaining high resource utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a geographic dimension to network resource management by mapping network performance data to specific locations and creating visual heat maps. This spatial visualization allows the system to identify coverage gaps and optimize mesh network routing based on geographic distribution of sharer devices and consumer demand.
2Loss of information
If feedback information is collected from multiple consumer devices to generate coverage data, then network coverage visualization is improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a community management system as an intermediary that collects, aggregates, and processes feedback information from multiple consumer devices. This intermediary consolidates distributed data into centralized heat maps and coverage data, reducing the processing burden on individual devices while maintaining comprehensive network coverage information.
3Adaptability or versatility
If incentive mechanisms are provided to potential sharer devices, then network participation is improved, but system complexity and operational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The incentive mechanism is designed to be automatically distributed by the community management system based on predefined criteria such as network coverage gaps and demand patterns. Potential sharer devices receive incentives autonomously without requiring manual intervention, reducing operational overhead while effectively encouraging network participation and expansion.
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AI summary
Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).