Decision Management Service for Wireless Control Loop Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
In wireless communications networks, control loop decisions across different management domains can lead to inefficient or conflicting actions due to independent decision-making by separate control loops, resulting in suboptimal management of managed entities.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for disabling or enabling control loop decisions, utilizing a decision management service producer that receives requests to disable or enable decisions for managed entities within control loops, determining applicability, and adjusting the ability of control loops to select or execute decisions accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If multiple control loops operate independently in different management domains, then each control loop can make autonomous decisions for its managed entities, but conflicting or inefficient decisions may result due to lack of coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a decision management service as an intermediary layer between control loops in different management domains. This service receives requests from control loops, determines whether decisions are currently applicable and performable, and coordinates decisions across domains to prevent conflicts while maintaining autonomous operation of individual control loops.
2Adaptability or versatility
If control loops make independent decisions across different management domains, then operational flexibility is maintained, but decision efficiency deteriorates due to potential conflicts and inconsistencies
Solution Approach 1:
The decision management service performs preliminary checks to determine whether a requested decision is currently applicable and performable before allowing the control loop to execute it. This preliminary action prevents future conflicts and inefficiencies by validating decisions in advance, thereby maintaining operational flexibility while improving decision efficiency.
3Device complexity
If control loops operate autonomously without centralized coordination, then system complexity is reduced, but harmful factors increase due to conflicting decisions affecting managed entities
Solution Approach 1:
The decision management service acts as a lightweight intermediary that coordinates decisions without imposing heavy centralized control. It provides just enough coordination to prevent harmful conflicting decisions while maintaining the autonomous nature of control loops and avoiding excessive system complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for disabling/enabling control loop decisions is disclosed includes, in various examples, receiving a request from a consumer to disable or enable control loop decisions for managed entities from being selected by control loops or entities therein; determining whether the request is performable by the control loops or entities therein; and disabling or enabling an ability to select the control loop decisions on the managed entities by the control loops or entities therein in response to determining that the request is currently applicable and performable. A system may perform the method. In some examples, the method disables one or more second control loops/entities from selecting decisions that conflict with decisions selected by a first control loop.