Multi-Interface Gateway Overlay for Reliable UTM Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) poses safety risks due to potential interference with manned aircraft, necessitating reliable and low-latency communication systems for unmanned traffic management (UTM) to manage UAS flights and prevent accidents.
Innovation Solution
A multi-interface transmission gateway system is implemented, leveraging multiple wireless network service providers to create an overlay network with redundancy, ensuring reliable and low-latency communication paths by intelligently routing data through a plurality of interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple wireless communication interfaces are used for UTM communication, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway is segmented into multiple independent virtual network interfaces (vNets), each handling specific communication functions. This allows the system to maintain multiple wireless interfaces while managing complexity through functional separation, where each vNet can be independently configured and monitored without affecting others.
Solution Approach 2:
Virtual network interfaces act as intermediaries between the physical wireless interfaces and the UTM communication protocols. These vNets abstract the complexity of multiple physical interfaces, providing a simplified interface for higher-layer protocols while managing the underlying multiplicity of wireless connections.
2Reliability
If overlay network with virtual interfaces is implemented, then communication continuity is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual network interface design provides multi-functionality by enabling a single vNet to operate across multiple physical interfaces. This universal interface can dynamically switch between different physical wireless interfaces while maintaining the same logical network identity, simplifying the management of communication continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures multiple virtual network interfaces and establishes backup communication paths before failures occur. When a primary wireless interface fails, the overlay network automatically switches to pre-established alternative paths through other vNets, providing fault tolerance without requiring complex real-time decision-making.
3Reliability
If linear sequence coding is used for packet encoding, then error resistance is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The linear sequence coding scheme uses carefully selected mathematical parameters (linearly independent sequences) that enable efficient encoding and decoding operations. By optimizing the coding parameters and using pre-computed basis sequences, the system achieves strong error resistance while minimizing processing overhead through mathematical efficiency.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for multi-interface transmission gateway processing and systems, methods, and computer readable media for utilizing linear sequence coding scheme are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes one or more vehicles, each including at least one vehicle gateway, and wireless communication interfaces, at least one management gateway in communication with the vehicle gateway of each vehicle through at least one of the wireless communication interfaces, and one or more management servers in communication with each of the one or more vehicles via the management gateway, wherein the one or more management servers is configured to monitor or manage a status of each of the one or more vehicles. In some embodiments, communications to or from computing devices may be coded using a linear sequence coding scheme or other scheme.