Dynamic Vehicle Grouping for High-Throughput Data Exchange
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication standards for connected vehicles fall short in meeting the data communication needs of fast-moving vehicles, particularly in transient high-throughput connection scenarios, where individual vehicles may not receive all required data due to their transient nature and dynamic environments.
Innovation Solution
A dynamic grouping mechanism that allows fast-moving vehicles to form structured or opportunistic groups, enabling them to share information through high-throughput connections by sending a group identifier to an access point, authenticating, and exchanging data using assigned connections, thereby extending the reach of high-volume data flows beyond the limits of a temporal connection point.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If current communication standards are used for connected vehicles, then individual vehicle communication is maintained, but fast-moving vehicles cannot receive all required data due to transient connection nature
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual vehicle connections into a single group connection. Vehicles form a convoy group that shares a common connection to the access point, allowing data to be transmitted once to the group rather than individually to each vehicle. This resolves the contradiction by improving transmission efficiency while ensuring all vehicles in the group receive complete data through the shared connection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic grouping where vehicles can join or leave convoys based on their motion patterns and connection quality. The system dynamically adjusts which vehicles are grouped together, optimizing data transmission as vehicles move through transient connection zones. This dynamic approach ensures that fast-moving vehicles receive complete data by adapting group composition to current connection conditions.
2Ease of operation
If individual vehicle connections are used, then each vehicle can be authenticated independently, but data transmission fails for transient high-speed vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual authentication processes into a single group authentication. The access point authenticates the convoy group as a whole rather than requiring separate authentication for each vehicle. This maintains operational simplicity while dramatically improving data exchange efficiency, as once authenticated, all vehicles in the group can exchange data through the shared connection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional communication protocols are used, then standard connection handling is maintained, but high-volume data flows cannot reach fast-moving vehicles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic connection management where the system adapts connection parameters based on vehicle motion and data requirements. For high-volume data transmissions to fast-moving vehicles, the system dynamically adjusts connection duration, data rate, and group composition to ensure complete data delivery. This maintains connection flexibility while enabling high-volume data flows that would fail under conventional static protocols.
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AI summary
In one embodiment, a technique for information sharing among dynamically grouped vehicles is provided that illustratively comprises making, by a first vehicle of a first plurality of vehicles, a determination that the first plurality of vehicles is a convoy of vehicles traveling as a group; sending, by the first vehicle, a group identifier that is indicative of the convoy and of each of the plurality of vehicles to an access point in communication with the first vehicle; authenticating, by the first vehicle, with the access point using the group identifier; and exchanging, by the first vehicle, first vehicular data with the access point using a first connection of a plurality of connections assigned to the group identifier.