Distributed Function Control in Network Nodes for Load Balancing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional network systems struggle to efficiently manage diverse and rapidly increasing functions across distributed electronic devices, leading to difficulties in function expression and management, particularly when devices support different sets of functions, resulting in incomplete or simplified functionality and excessive processing loads.
Innovation Solution
A network system with a management device and slave devices that communicate function information, allowing the management device to determine control devices for specific functions based on attribute information, and slave devices to activate configurations as control devices, enabling dynamic migration and load balancing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the management device manages all functions in a distributed network system, then complete function management is achieved, but the processing load on the management device becomes excessive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides function management into segments by introducing control devices that are specifically assigned to manage individual functions. The management device no longer manages all functions directly but instead delegates function-specific management to control devices, reducing its processing load while maintaining complete function management through the coordinated action of multiple control devices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces control devices as intermediary elements between the management device and the functions. These control devices receive function information from the management device and actively control the functions, serving as mediators that reduce the management device's direct processing burden while ensuring complete and accurate function management
2Reliability
If the management device determines control devices for all functions, then complete function control is achieved, but the signaling load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having control devices proactively transmit their supported function information to the management device before function assignment. This pre-sharing of capability information allows the management device to make informed control device assignments without requiring extensive real-time signaling, thereby reducing overall signaling load while maintaining complete function control
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where control devices transmit function information to the management device, and the management device provides feedback by determining which control devices should manage specific functions. This iterative feedback process ensures complete function control while optimizing signaling efficiency through targeted information exchange
3Loss of information
If slave devices transmit function information continuously, then complete function information is collected, but the signaling load on the network increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by having slave devices transmit function information at specific intervals or triggered by events rather than continuously. Function information is transmitted periodically or when changes occur, ensuring complete function information is collected while significantly reducing the signaling load on the network compared to continuous transmission
4Reliability
If the management device stores all function information, then complete function management is maintained, but the memory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the storage of function information by having control devices store and process function information locally rather than requiring the management device to store all function information centrally. Each control device maintains its own function information for the functions it manages, distributing the memory burden across multiple devices while maintaining complete function management capability
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a management device in a network system. The network system includes at least one slave device. The management device is communicatively connected with the at least one slave device. The management device includes a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to: receive, from one or more slave devices of the at least one slave device, function information of functions supported by the one or more slave devices; summarize the received function information and function information of functions supported by the network system which is stored in the management device; determine function information of the summarized function information, a function corresponding to which a control device is to be determined for; and determine the control device for the function to which the determined function information corresponds, from the management device and the at least one slave device.