Load Balancing via Pairing Efficiency and Channel Bandwidth
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless networks face challenges in optimizing resource allocation and load balancing across different wireless air interfaces with varying bandwidths and radio access technologies, leading to inefficient use of resources, especially as data transmission demands increase.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method for load balancing by comparing pairing efficiency metrics and aggregate channel bandwidths across different wireless air interfaces, such as 4G LTE and 5G NR, to offload wireless devices from less efficient interfaces to more efficient ones, thereby optimizing resource utilization and channel bandwidth exploitation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If wireless devices are served on air interfaces with lower pairing efficiency, then more devices can be accommodated, but resource utilization efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts load distribution across air interfaces based on real-time pairing efficiency metrics. The load balancing mechanism continuously monitors pairing efficiency and automatically redirects devices between interfaces, making the network configuration adaptive rather than static, thereby optimizing resource utilization while accommodating varying device loads.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the operational parameters of air interfaces by adjusting the distribution of wireless devices based on pairing efficiency metrics. By modifying which devices are served on which air interface according to measured pairing efficiency, the system transforms fixed resource allocation into a variable parameter system that optimizes both device capacity and resource efficiency.
2Productivity
If MIMO is used to increase efficiency on heavily loaded carriers, then resource efficiency improves, but device compatibility requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary load balancing mechanism that acts between the heavily loaded carrier and MIMO-capable devices. This intermediary selectively redirects devices to appropriate air interfaces based on their MIMO capability and the current pairing efficiency, thereby enabling MIMO efficiency gains on loaded carriers while maintaining compatibility with non-MIMO devices through alternative interface assignments.
3Quantity of substance
If 5G air interface is used for data transmissions, then channel bandwidth increases, but pairing efficiency may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the operational parameters by dynamically selecting which air interface (4G or 5G) serves which devices based on real-time pairing efficiency measurements. When 5G pairing efficiency deteriorates, the system adjusts the parameter configuration to redirect devices to 4G interfaces, thereby maintaining optimal resource utilization while still leveraging 5G's higher bandwidth capabilities when conditions are favorable.
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AI summary
Load balancing based on pairing efficiency and channel bandwidth includes comparing pairing efficiency metrics of wireless devices attached to different wireless air interfaces, comparing an aggregate channel bandwidth of carriers using each wireless air interface, and offloading wireless devices from one carrier to another carrier based on the comparisons of the pairing efficiency metrics and the aggregate channel bandwidth. In an embodiment, wireless devices are offloaded from a 5G NR wireless air interface to a 4G LTE wireless air interface having a higher pairing efficiency and aggregate channel bandwidth.