Femtocell Access Point Channel Utilization Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Femtocell access point communication channels often experience varying quality due to location, network congestion, and shared connections, leading to degraded voice and data services, with poor performance characteristics like high latency and packet loss affecting user experience and call establishment success rates.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for determining performance characteristics of broadband communication channels between access points and gateways, managing access point communication channel utilization by controlling parameters such as bandwidth and bearer channel allocation based on these characteristics, and facilitating handoffs to ensure optimal resource allocation and quality of service.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If femtocell access point shares connection with other user equipment, then network resource utilization increases, but connection quality for femtocell services degrades
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts bearer channel parameters (such as QoS settings, bandwidth allocation, and priority levels) based on real-time performance characteristics of the broadband channel. This allows the access point to optimize resource allocation adaptively, maintaining high network utilization while ensuring adequate service quality for femtocell connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention modifies communication parameters including QoS class identifiers, bandwidth allocations, and bearer channel configurations based on detected performance characteristics. By changing these parameters dynamically, the system resolves the contradiction between maximizing resource utilization and maintaining connection quality.
2Reliability
If communication channel bandwidth is increased to improve service quality, then connection quality improves, but network resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors performance characteristics and dynamically adjusts bandwidth allocation and QoS parameters. When connection quality degrades, bandwidth is increased; when quality is sufficient, bandwidth is reduced. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction by optimizing resource consumption while maintaining adequate service quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes communication parameters including bandwidth allocation, QoS class identifiers, and bearer channel configurations based on real-time performance monitoring. These parameter changes enable the system to achieve high connection quality only when necessary, thereby reducing overall network resource consumption.
3Reliability
If real-time performance monitoring is implemented to improve service management, then service quality control improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where performance characteristics are continuously monitored and used to automatically adjust bearer channel parameters. This closed-loop control improves service quality control while managing system complexity through automated decision-making algorithms that respond to performance feedback without requiring complex manual intervention.
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AI summary
A method is provided in one example and includes determining that at least one performance characteristic of a broadband communication channel between an access point and a gateway and managing access point communication channel utilization based, at least in part, on the performance characteristic. In one or more example embodiments, the access point communication channel utilization pertains to the broadband communication channel, at least one user equipment communication channel, and/or the like.