Dual Output Buffer Wireless Router for Train Data Prioritization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current wireless communication systems for moving vehicles, such as trains, face challenges in maintaining optimal transmission performance due to poor radio coverage and high bandwidth demands, particularly for large data volumes and streaming media.

Innovation Solution

A wireless communication method and system that employs two output buffers to prioritize and optimize data traffic. Prioritized data types, such as VoIP and transaction data, are routed through a fast track buffer, while non-prioritized data types, like video streaming, use a bulk queue buffer, ensuring efficient bandwidth allocation and reduced latency for critical traffic.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single output buffer is used for all data traffic, then device complexity is reduced, but quality of service and latency performance deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebuffer structureVSAvoidquality of service
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the single output buffer into multiple separate output buffers (first output buffer for prioritized data types, second output buffer for non-prioritized data types). This segmentation allows different data traffic to be handled independently, ensuring that critical traffic receives priority treatment while maintaining overall system manageability through dedicated buffer structures for each category.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If bandwidth cap policies are applied to limit data usage, then bandwidth utilization is optimized, but user experience and service quality deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebandwidth utilizationVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different quality levels of service to different data types by routing prioritized data (such as voice and transaction data) through a dedicated first output buffer with higher priority, while non-prioritized data (such as video streaming) uses a second output buffer. This local differentiation ensures that critical applications receive guaranteed bandwidth and low latency without completely restricting other data types, thereby maintaining good user experience while optimizing overall bandwidth utilization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP4199642B1Wireless communication system for moving vehicles, such as trains, with improved prioritization
Publication Date: 2025.01.29 ECOMELA
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AI summary

A method and system for wireless communication between a router in a moving vehicle, such as a train, and a stationary communication server outside the moving vehicle through at least one external mobile network on at least one link are disclosed. The method comprises: providing a first output buffer and a second output buffer, and determining whether said data stream is of a data type belonging to a set of prioritized data types. In case the data stream is of a data type belonging to the set of prioritized data types, the first output buffer is selected, and in case the data is of a data type not belonging to the set of prioritized data types, the second output buffer is selected.