Telecommunication Frame Encoding Using Hash Code Node Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Low-speed M2M communication networks face challenges in reducing frame size to optimize bit rate, channel occupancy, and energy consumption, as existing methods do not effectively exploit information redundancy between data frames and rely heavily on large headers and unambiguous decompression, leading to inefficient use of spectral resources.

Innovation Solution

A method that involves encrypting data frames, generating a hash code, and using a database to identify the transmitting node, allowing for truncated address transmission and adaptive transmission parameter adjustment, thereby reducing frame size and optimizing network operation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If frame size is reduced to optimize bit rate and channel occupancy, then spectral resource efficiency improves, but node identification reliability deteriorates due to truncated addresses

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectral resource efficiencyVSAvoidnode identification reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a hash code as an intermediary element that mediates between the truncated address (which provides only partial identification) and the need for reliable node identification. The hash code is generated from the complete address and encrypted data, serving as a verification key that enables reliable identification without transmitting the complete address, thus resolving the contradiction between frame size reduction and identification reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a cryptographic copy (hash code) of the complete address information that can be verified without transmitting the original complete address. This copy contains sufficient information to verify node identity while occupying minimal space in the transmitted frame, allowing reliable identification with reduced frame size

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If complete address is transmitted for reliable node identification, then identification accuracy improves, but frame size increases reducing network capacity

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenode identification accuracyVSAvoidnetwork capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential identification information (truncated address) from the complete address for transmission in the frame, while using the hash code verification mechanism to ensure accurate node identification. This extraction approach transmits minimal data (improving network capacity) while maintaining identification accuracy through cryptographic verification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of address representation from complete binary address to truncated address plus hash code verification. This parameter transformation enables accurate node identification with significantly reduced transmission data, thereby increasing network capacity while maintaining identification precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If unambiguous decompression is provided for each frame element, then decoding reliability improves, but frame overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedecoding reliabilityVSAvoidframe overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple functions into the hash code element: it serves as both an integrity verification mechanism and a node identification verification mechanism. This consolidation provides reliable decoding verification without requiring separate overhead fields for each function, thus maintaining decoding reliability while reducing overall frame overhead

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentEP3130168B1Methods for encoding and decoding frames in a telecommunication network
Publication Date: 2021.11.10 ACTILITY
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for receiving a data frame emitted by a node, using a database containing records about said nodes and at least one hash code contained in said frame in order to decode said frame.