Mobile WiFi Interconnection Device Channel Interference Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile WiFi devices experience service interruptions when switching channels due to interference between WiFi station and hotspot channels, leading to suboptimal network performance and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A mobile wireless interconnection device detects interference between channels and adjusts its transmit power to minimize interference, switching to time division multiplexing modes to maintain dual-channel operation, ensuring seamless internet access without interruptions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the mobile WiFi device uses the same channel for both uplink and downlink, then the device complexity is reduced, but service interruption occurs when switching channels

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel management complexityVSAvoidservice continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the communication channels into separate uplink and downlink channels operating on different frequencies. This segmentation allows independent channel switching without service interruption, resolving the contradiction between simplified channel management and service continuity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic channel switching where the uplink and downlink channels can be independently adjusted based on network conditions. This dynamic approach maintains service continuity while managing channel resources efficiently, overcoming the limitation of fixed same-channel operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If the mobile WiFi device switches to a different channel for downlink, then service interruption is avoided, but interference between channels increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice continuityVSAvoidchannel interference
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces frequency separation as an intermediary mechanism between uplink and downlink channels. By operating on different frequencies, the system reduces mutual interference while maintaining service continuity, effectively mediating the conflict between reliability and interference.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the frequency parameter of the downlink channel relative to the uplink channel. This parameter change enables independent channel switching without interference, resolving the contradiction between service continuity and channel interference.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If the mobile WiFi device reduces transmit power to minimize interference, then channel interference decreases, but communication range is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvechannel interferenceVSAvoidcommunication range
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs periodic transmit power adjustment combined with channel switching. By periodically adapting power levels and utilizing frequency diversity, the system minimizes interference while maintaining adequate communication range through temporal and spectral resource management.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from single-dimensional power control to multi-dimensional resource management by introducing frequency as an additional dimension. This allows interference reduction through frequency separation while maintaining range through optimized power allocation across multiple dimensions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentEP2941060B1Network access method, device, and system
Publication Date: 2019.07.31 HUAWEI DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and disclose a network access method, device, and system. The method includes: detecting, by a mobile wireless interconnection device, whether interference exists between a first channel and a second channel, where the first channel is between the mobile wireless interconnection device and a station, and the second channel is between the mobile wireless interconnection device and a hotspot access device; if interference exists, reducing, by the mobile wireless interconnection device, its own transmit power, so that no interference exists between the first channel and the second channel, and the station accesses the Internet by using the mobile wireless fidelity device and the hotspot access device. According to the embodiments of the present invention, the mobile wireless interconnection device may reduce its own transmit power, so that an STA accesses the Internet by using a mobile WiFi device and the hotspot access device, thereby avoiding network interruption caused by channel switching and further improving user experience.