Interconnect Device Power Allocation for Network Bandwidth Equalization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional networking devices allocate equal power to all interconnect devices, leading to inefficient operation where more efficient devices receive excessive power and less efficient devices experience congestion, limiting network performance.
Innovation Solution
Implementing power instructions that dynamically allocate power based on the relative efficiency of each interconnect device, ensuring more power is budgeted to less efficient devices and less power to more efficient devices, thereby equalizing bandwidth and performance across the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If equal power is allocated to all interconnect devices, then simplicity of power management is maintained, but network performance efficiency deteriorates due to mismatch between power allocation and device efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements differentiated power allocation where each interconnect device receives power based on its specific efficiency characteristics rather than uniform power distribution. The system determines relative efficiency of each device and allocates power accordingly, making the power management adaptive to local device conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts power allocation parameters based on measured device efficiency. By monitoring performance metrics and calculating relative efficiency, the system changes power distribution parameters to optimize overall network performance while accounting for variations in device capabilities.
2Reliability
If more power is allocated to less efficient devices, then bandwidth equalization across devices is improved, but total power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic power allocation that adjusts power distribution based on real-time or periodic efficiency measurements. The system can adapt power allocation over time as device performance characteristics change, allowing optimization of the balance between bandwidth equalization and power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from performance measurements to adjust power allocation. By monitoring device efficiency and bandwidth performance, the system continuously refines power distribution to achieve optimal equalization while minimizing total power consumption through iterative optimization.
Data Source
AI summary
An interconnect device is provided. In one example, an interconnect device includes ports and circuits to receive measurements from two or more switching devices; determine, based on the measurements, a relative power consumption of each switching device from the two or more switching devices; generate, based on the relative power consumption of each switching device from the two or more switching devices, respective power instructions for each switching device from the two or more switching devices; and distribute the respective power instructions to each switching device from the two or more switching devices.