Decentralized Overload Control for Wireless Channel Load Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current decentralized overload control methods in wireless communication systems for vehicle-to-X networks face challenges in managing rapidly changing channel loads and ensuring reliable data transmission, especially under high mobility and density conditions, leading to inefficiencies in packet error rates, collisions, and latency.

Innovation Solution

The method introduces a decentralized overload control system with a relaxed state and five activated states, each defined by specific channel load percentages, along with congestion control profiles, to manage data transmission intervals and prioritize messages based on importance, thereby optimizing bandwidth usage and reducing latency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If decentralized overload control with multiple activated states is implemented, then reliability of data transmission is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission reliabilityVSAvoidoverload control system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The overload control system is segmented into seven distinct states (one relaxed state, five activated states, and one restricted state), each handling specific channel load ranges. This segmentation allows the system to respond appropriately to different load conditions without requiring complex real-time calculations, thereby improving reliability while managing complexity through structured state definitions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters (data transmission intervals) based on the current state. Each of the five activated states has specific transmission interval configurations that optimize performance for particular channel load conditions. This parameter-based approach simplifies control logic compared to continuous adjustment mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If data transmission intervals are extended in activated states, then productivity is improved, but loss of time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission efficiencyVSAvoidpacket transmission delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts data transmission intervals based on the current channel load and active state. During high load conditions, longer intervals prevent congestion and improve overall system productivity by reducing collisions. During low load conditions, the system transitions to shorter intervals, minimizing transmission delays and maintaining responsiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Data transmission occurs in periodic intervals rather than continuously. The five activated states define different periodic intervals optimized for their respective channel load ranges. This periodic approach balances productivity (by allowing processing time between transmissions) and time loss (by using appropriately short intervals based on current conditions).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentEP3363232B1Method and apparatus for configuring a data transmission via a transmission channel of a wireless communication system with local overload control
Publication Date: 2021.05.05 VOLKSWAGEN AG
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for configuring a data transmission via a transmission channel of a wireless communication system (20) with local overload control (16), wherein the local overload control (16) comprises a relaxed state (Rel), an activated state and a restricted state (Res). There is provision for five activated states (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5) to be provided, the categorisation of which is based on a channel load (CL) in the transmission channel.