Microwave Design Tool With Path Conflict Validation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing microwave network infrastructure design and planning tools are inadequate for efficiently managing complex wireless networks, leading to errors such as selecting already consumed paths or overprovisioning, which affects network capability and reliability.
Innovation Solution
A computerized tool that generates a data record for microwave equipment, establishes interaction rules, and builds a wireless connection plan based on permissible interactions and properties, including microwave channels and capacity, to optimize network design and reduce errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual microwave network design methods are used, then flexibility in design process is maintained, but errors such as selecting already consumed paths or overprovisioning occur, reducing network reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-validation by automatically checking selected paths and microwave channels against existing network inventory and constraints. The design tool queries the network inventory system to verify path availability and capacity, and automatically detects conflicts such as selecting already consumed paths or overprovisioning, eliminating the need for manual verification and reducing errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the design tool continuously queries the network inventory system during the design process to obtain real-time information about path availability, microwave channel usage, and network constraints. This feedback loop allows the system to validate design decisions, detect errors, and provide corrective guidance to users, thereby improving network reliability.
2Productivity
If automated path selection is implemented, then design efficiency is improved, but errors in path selection and overprovisioning may occur, affecting network capability
Solution Approach 1:
The automated design tool performs self-validation by querying the network inventory system to verify path availability and microwave channel usage before finalizing design decisions. The system automatically detects selection errors and overprovisioning conditions, correcting them without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining both high design efficiency and network capability reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical verification processes with automated electronic queries to the network inventory system. The design tool automatically retrieves real-time network state information, validates design decisions against actual network constraints, and detects errors such as path selection conflicts and overprovisioning, ensuring reliable network capability while maintaining high design efficiency.
3Measurement precision
If comprehensive validation rules are applied, then network planning accuracy is improved, but processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary validation by establishing interaction rules and querying network inventory constraints before the design process begins. The design tool pre-loads available microwave channels, path capacities, and network constraints into the system memory, enabling rapid validation during design without requiring time-consuming queries during the actual design process, thus maintaining high accuracy while minimizing processing time.
Solution Approach 2:
The system merges multiple validation checks into a single integrated process. The interaction rules combine path availability validation, microwave channel usage verification, capacity constraints checking, and conflict detection into one unified validation mechanism that queries the network inventory system once and performs all necessary checks simultaneously, improving accuracy without proportionally increasing processing time.
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AI summary
Techniques for developing and/or building microwave system infrastructure are enabled. For example, a method can comprise: based on the properties of the respective ones of the group of microwave devices as populated in the representation, defining, a system comprising a processor, rules that define permissible interactions between respective ones of a group of microwave devices associated with a development of a microwave network infrastructure, based on a representation and rules, planning, by the system, respective wireless hops between the respective ones of the group of microwave devices, and assigning, by the system, respective wireless paths to respective ones of the respective wireless hops further based on the rules.