Control Unit for 5G Uplink Streaming Resource Reservation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing mobile communication systems face challenges in achieving high-quality and low-delay uplink streaming of recording streams, particularly in professional use cases, due to issues with resource management and seamless handover between base station devices in 5G networks.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that acquires resource information for uplink data transmission, selects and reserves resources, and generates combination information for resource utilization, ensuring efficient resource allocation and handover management to maintain high-quality streaming.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If resource information is acquired and reserved for uplink streaming, then resource utilization efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases due to multiple resource management operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource utilization efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a control unit as an intermediary component that centralizes resource management functions. The control unit acquires resource information from multiple base station devices, selects appropriate resources, performs reservations, and generates combination information. This intermediary structure simplifies the overall system by consolidating complex resource management operations in a dedicated component rather than distributing complexity across multiple devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The control unit performs preliminary actions by acquiring resource information in advance and performing reservations before actual uplink streaming occurs. The control unit proactively selects resources and generates combination information related to combinations of reserved resources, enabling efficient resource allocation and reducing latency during actual streaming operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If resource reservation and combination management are implemented, then handover quality is improved, but processing time increases due to multiple selection and reservation operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandover qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit performs resource selection and reservation in advance, generating combination information before handover is needed. By proactively acquiring resource information and performing reservations, the system prepares resource combinations ahead of time, reducing processing time during actual handover operations while maintaining high handover quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The control unit dynamically selects resources from multiple base station devices based on current conditions and generates appropriate combination information. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt resource allocation to changing network conditions, improving handover quality while optimizing processing time through intelligent, context-aware resource selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12185167B2Information processing device, information processing method, and information processing system
Publication Date: 2024.12.31 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

An information processing device (50) includes a control unit. The control unit acquires each piece of resource information related to a plurality of different resources to be used when uplink data is transmitted by streaming. The control unit selects a resource to be used by a device (10, 20, 30) that performs the streaming on the basis of the resource information that has been acquired and performs reservation for use of the resource that has been selected. The control unit generates combination information related to a combination of resources that have been reserved for use.