Edge Cloud Service Failover via Central Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional network architectures face challenges in handling increasing mobile network traffic and computational demands, leading to prolonged downtime and poor user experience during abnormal situations in mobile edge computing architectures, which require rebuilding the entire communication environment.
Innovation Solution
A network communication control method that utilizes multiple edge clouds, where a central control platform detects service abnormalities in one edge computing platform, reallocates services to another edge computing platform, generates offload information, and transmits the target service location to ensure continuous communication connections for terminal devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the entire communication environment is re-built during abnormal situations in mobile edge computing, then service reliability is improved, but service downtime increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes backup edge computing platforms in advance that remain standby-ready with pre-configured service environments. When an abnormal situation occurs, the system activates the pre-prepared backup platform rather than rebuilding from scratch, significantly reducing service downtime while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the service environment on backup edge computing platforms. Instead of rebuilding the entire communication environment, the system replicates essential service components to standby platforms, allowing rapid failover and minimizing service interruption
2Reliability
If multiple edge computing platforms are deployed for service redundancy, then system resilience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a central control platform as an intermediary that manages multiple edge computing platforms. This central coordinator handles service allocation, health monitoring, and failover decisions, simplifying the complexity of managing multiple platforms by providing a unified control mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs edge computing platforms with universal service capabilities that can handle multiple service types. This multi-functionality reduces the need for specialized configurations on each platform, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining resilience through redundancy
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AI summary
A network communication control method of multiple edge clouds comprises providing a terminal device with a target service by a first edge computing platform, determining that there is a service abnormal situation in the first edge computing platform by a central control platform, re-allocating the target service to a second edge computing platform and generating offload information and a target service location according to the service abnormal situation, the target service and operational information of the second edge computing platform by the central control platform, transmitting the offload information to the second edge computing platform by the central control platform, and transmitting the target service location to the terminal device by the first edge computing platform or the second edge computing platform so as to allow the terminal device to have a communication connection with the second edge computing platform according to the target service location.