Half-Duplex Radio Transmission Windows for Priority Control Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Bi-directional data transmission between sophisticated electronic devices, such as gaming consoles and hand controllers, faces challenges due to varying data types and transmission delays, making efficient communication difficult.
Innovation Solution
Implementing fixed transmission windows to prioritize and manage the transmission of audio and control data using half-duplex radios, where control data has a higher priority than audio data, ensuring faster and more reliable transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If bi-directional transmission is implemented between sophisticated electronic devices, then communication capability is improved, but transmission delays and data loss increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transmission process is segmented into distinct transmission windows for different data types. Control data and audio data are separated into different time slots, allowing independent optimization of each data type's transmission parameters and reducing interference between them.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses periodic transmission windows that alternate between control data transmission and audio data transmission. This periodic structure ensures that control data receives priority attention at regular intervals while maintaining continuous audio data flow.
2Productivity
If control data and audio data are transmitted simultaneously, then communication efficiency is improved, but data loss increases due to half-duplex radio limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The radio transmission is segmented into dedicated time windows for control data and audio data. This prevents simultaneous transmission conflicts in half-duplex systems while maintaining efficient utilization of the radio channel through structured time-division multiplexing.
Solution Approach 2:
Control data is transmitted in priority time windows before audio data transmission windows. This preliminary action ensures that time-critical control information is delivered before less time-sensitive audio data, reducing overall data loss for critical functions.
3Reliability
If control data is prioritized over audio data, then transmission reliability for control data is improved, but transmission speed for audio data decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic transmission windows that alternate between control data and audio data. This ensures that control data receives priority transmission at regular intervals while audio data maintains continuous transmission during its designated windows, balancing reliability and speed for both data types.
Data Source
AI summary
System, method, and circuitry for utilizing a synchronization message to create fixed transmission windows for multiple priority data in half-duplex communication systems. A first computing device includes a first master controller and a first slave radio, and a second computing device includes a second slave controller and a second master radio. The first controller and the second radio may share a transmit mode during a transmission window, and the first radio and the second controller radio may share a receive mode during that same transmission window, which are defined by the synchronization message. The first controller can transmit outbound data to the first radio, the second radio can transmit outbound data to the second controller, and the second radio can transmit inbound data to the first radio during this transmission window.