Encoded Digital Data Tracking in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless ad-hoc networks, tracking disseminated data is challenging due to high network resource consumption and vulnerability to data destruction, making it difficult to verify data dissemination effectively.

Innovation Solution

A method involving encoding digital data with sign data using a linear combination operation to create encoded data that maintains the original data size, allowing for efficient tracking by identifying error positions during decoding, which corresponds to specific data dissemination devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If current tracking methods are used to track disseminated data in wireless ad-hoc networks, then data dissemination tracking is achieved, but network resources are consumed heavily

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata tracking capabilityVSAvoidnetwork resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the tracking information (sign data) from separate transmission and embeds it within the data payload itself through encoding. This eliminates the need for separate tracking messages and verification packets, thereby reducing network resource consumption while maintaining tracking capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the data payload and tracking information (sign data) into a single encoded message. By merging these functions into one transmission unit, the system avoids redundant network traffic and reduces overall resource consumption while preserving both data delivery and tracking functionalities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Measurement precision

If verification data is transmitted separately to track data dissemination, then tracking accuracy is improved, but verification data may be easily destroyed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetracking accuracyVSAvoiddata integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

By combining verification data with the main data payload through encoding, the system ensures that both are transmitted together and received together. This eliminates the risk of separate verification data being lost or destroyed during transmission, while maintaining tracking accuracy through the integrated verification mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates verification data into the encoded payload in advance, creating a resilient structure where verification information is protected within the main data stream. This prior integration cushions against potential loss or destruction of verification data during transmission.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #11Beforehand cushioning (Prior cushioning)

3Quantity of substance

If sign data is encoded into digital data through linear combination operation, then data size remains unchanged, but decoding complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata sizeVSAvoiddecoding complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses linear combination operations with carefully selected parameters (encoding coefficients) that enable efficient decoding. By changing the mathematical parameters of the encoding scheme, the system achieves compact representation without excessive decoding complexity, balancing data size efficiency with computational feasibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8909544B2Method for encoding or decoding digital data, data disseminating device and data managing device
Publication Date: 2014.12.09 IND TECH RES INST
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AI summary

A method for encoding or decoding digital data, a data dissemination device and a data managing device are provided. The method for encoding digital data includes the following steps. A digital data is received. A sign data is encoded into the digital data through a linear combination operation to obtain an encoded digital data, wherein the size of the digital data is not changed after the encoding process. The encoded digital data is disseminated.