Mobile Mesh Network Relay for Communication Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless networks often experience connectivity issues due to limited coverage range, capacity, severe weather, or power outages, leading to difficulties in maintaining network connections for mobile user devices, particularly for emergency messages.
Innovation Solution
A communication system that establishes a communication link between mobile vehicles using TCP/IP protocols, broadcasting primary and secondary information such as identification, velocity, and telemetry data, allowing for mesh networking and connection to service providers via wireless or wired networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If wireless networks are used to provide network access to mobile user devices, then flexibility and convenience are improved, but reliability deteriorates due to limited coverage range, network capacity, severe weather, or power outages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces mesh networking as an intermediary communication path between mobile devices and service providers. When traditional wireless networks fail due to coverage limitations, weather, or power outages, the mesh network acts as a mediator by routing communications through other mobile devices that form ad-hoc relay nodes, thereby maintaining connection reliability without sacrificing the flexibility of wireless access
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes communication parameters by switching between traditional wireless network modes and mesh networking modes based on network availability. When wireless network parameters (coverage, capacity) become insufficient, the system transitions to mesh networking parameters where devices self-organize into relay chains, adapting the communication architecture to maintain reliable connections under varying environmental conditions
2Area of stationary object
If wireless networks expand coverage range and capacity to handle more mobile user devices, then service coverage is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh networking implementation follows the self-service principle where mobile devices automatically perform network formation, routing calculation, and relay selection without requiring complex centralized infrastructure. Each device independently manages its own network participation by listening for broadcast messages, determining optimal relay paths, and dynamically joining or leaving the mesh network based on its location and network conditions, thereby expanding coverage without proportionally increasing infrastructure complexity
3Speed
If mobile user devices move at fast speed and/or in and out of network coverage, then mobility is improved, but connection stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh networking system is inherently dynamic, allowing mobile devices to continuously adjust their relay paths based on real-time position changes. As devices move at high speeds or enter/exit coverage areas, the network dynamically recalculates routing paths through broadcast message exchanges, selecting new relay nodes that maintain optimal communication links. This dynamic adaptation ensures connection stability is preserved despite rapid mobility by constantly optimizing the communication topology to match current device positions
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AI summary
A system for and method of establishing a communication link between mobile vehicles is presented. The method may include acquiring first information associated with a first mobile vehicle. The method may also include determining whether to update the first information associated with the first mobile vehicle. The method may further include transmitting, via a transceiver module, the first information associated with the first mobile vehicle based at least in part on the determination of not to update the first information associated with the first mobile vehicle.