Mobile Base Station Handover via Dual Candidate Lists

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge in wireless communications is to quickly and efficiently handover users from a mobile base station that needs to leave a service area to another mobile base station without causing service interruptions, especially in emergency situations where the original mobile base station cannot continue providing service.

Innovation Solution

The solution involves maintaining two candidate lists of neighbor nodes for each mobile base station, which are updated periodically, to quickly determine a suitable replacement base station based on factors like power, capability, and movement trace, ensuring seamless handover and reducing time delays.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a mobile base station needs to leave its service area due to emergency or other reasons, then the mobile base station can respond to emergency events and provide flexible service coverage, but the user group originally served by the mobile base station will suffer service interruption

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemobility of mobile base stationVSAvoidservice continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes a candidate list containing multiple potential replacement base stations before the mobile base station needs to leave. This preliminary preparation ensures that when handover is needed, the system can immediately select from pre-identified candidates without delay, thus maintaining service continuity while enabling mobile base station mobility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If the mobile base station handover process is simplified to reduce complexity, then the handover operation becomes faster and more efficient, but the success rate of handover may decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandover speedVSAvoidhandover success rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-identifies and stores multiple candidate base stations in a candidate list before actual handover is needed. This preliminary action reduces the complexity and time required for handover decision-making while maintaining high success rates, as the system only needs to select from pre-validated candidates rather than performing complex real-time evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms to monitor and evaluate handover performance. By analyzing handover success rates and adjusting the candidate selection criteria accordingly, the system optimizes the balance between handover speed and success rate, ensuring reliable service continuity during mobile base station relocation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If the system maintains multiple candidate lists for each mobile base station, then the handover success rate and speed are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandover success rateVSAvoiddata structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes and maintains candidate lists containing potential replacement base stations. This preliminary organization of data reduces the complexity of real-time handover decisions, as the system only needs to select from pre-compiled lists rather than performing complex real-time searches and evaluations across the entire network.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3644650B1Electronic device and method used for wireless communication
Publication Date: 2022.07.27 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

Provided are an electronic device and method used for wireless communication. The electronic device comprises: a processing circuit, configured to: acquire a first candidate list of a first mobile base station, wherein the first candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the first mobile base station; determine a neighbour node as a second mobile base station from the first candidate list, wherein the second mobile base station is capable of replacing the first mobile base station as a successor base station of the first mobile base station for continuing to provide a service for a current user; and acquiring a second candidate list of the second mobile base station, wherein the second candidate list comprises at least some neighbour nodes of the second mobile base station.