Hardware Configuration Change Messages for Cellular Network Bandwidth Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
In expansive cellular networks, managing hardware configuration updates across numerous base stations requires significant bandwidth due to the need for frequent and comprehensive data transmissions, leading to inefficiencies in maintaining up-to-date configuration data.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system where an Operations Support System (OSS) collects status information from equipment nodes, identifies updates, and sends change messages to a network management device in real time, minimizing the bandwidth required for hardware configuration data updates by only transmitting changes rather than full snapshot data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If periodic bulk data transmissions are used to maintain hardware configuration data, then data completeness is ensured, but bandwidth consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and transmits only the changed portions of hardware configuration data (delta updates) rather than transmitting complete configuration snapshots periodically. The OSS identifies and sends only the specific configuration elements that have changed, eliminating unnecessary data transmission while maintaining data completeness at the network management device.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration data is segmented into individual configuration elements or nodes, allowing the system to identify and transmit only the specific segments that have changed. This segmentation enables selective updating of configuration data rather than bulk transmission of entire configuration sets.
2Loss of time
If frequent status information collection is implemented, then data freshness is improved, but network traffic increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and transmits only the changed configuration elements rather than all configuration data. By comparing current status information with previously stored configuration data, the OSS identifies only the differences and transmits those specific changes, achieving real-time data freshness with minimal network traffic.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the network management device stores received configuration data and uses it as a baseline for future comparisons. This feedback loop enables the OSS to efficiently identify changes by comparing current status against the stored baseline, reducing redundant transmissions.
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AI summary
Techniques are described herein for providing hardware configuration updates relating to equipment nodes in a network using change messages. In embodiments, the techniques may comprise receiving a status update comprising status information for one or more equipment nodes, determining, based on the status information, one or more changes in status of the one or more equipment nodes since a prior status update, and generating a change message that includes the one or more changes. The techniques may further involve providing the change message to at least one second computing device, wherein the one or more changes is used to update aggregate data maintained by the second computing device.