Connected Device Resource Allocation via Work Plan Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication networks face challenges in ensuring reliable and timely resource allocation for connected devices (CODs) moving in a workspace, particularly in ensuring availability of adequate connection points.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that receive requests for resource allocation from client apparatuses, incorporate work plans with planned positions of CODs, and compute resource allocations for connection points, including assigning CODs to connection points based on work plans and quality of experience requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If resource allocation is computed based on work plans and planned positions of CODs, then reliability of connection point availability is improved, but computational complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary computation of resource allocation by integrating work plan information and planned COD positions in advance. The control apparatus computes the resource allocation before the actual execution time, using the work plan data received from the orchestrator apparatus to pre-determine connection point assignments for multiple CODs across multiple time ranges, thereby ensuring reliability while managing computational load through advance processing.
2Reliability
If resource allocation is computed for multiple connection points across multiple time ranges, then connection point availability is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control apparatus computes resource allocation in advance for multiple connection points and multiple time ranges by utilizing work plan information that specifies planned COD positions over time. This preliminary computation ensures that connection point availability is guaranteed for future time ranges without requiring real-time processing delays.
3Measurement precision
If work plan information is integrated into resource allocation computation, then resource allocation accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestrator apparatus serves as an intermediary that provides work plan information to the control apparatus. The control apparatus receives this work plan data, which includes planned COD positions and time range information, and uses it as input for computing resource allocation. This intermediary structure allows accurate resource allocation based on work plans while distributing system complexity across multiple specialized components.
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AI summary
According to an example aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method comprising receiving by a control apparatus, from a client apparatus, a request for a resource allocation of one or more connected devices on one or more time ranges, receiving by the control apparatus, from an orchestrator apparatus, a work plan for a group of connected devices, wherein the work plan comprises planned positions of the group of connected devices and the group of connected devices comprises said one or more connected devices, computing by the control apparatus, based at least on the work plan, a resource allocation for each of multiple connection points on said one or more time ranges, wherein the resource allocation comprises an assignation of said one or more connected devices to the connected points and transmitting, by the control apparatus, the resource allocation to the client apparatus.