Centralized Monitoring Device for Wireless Group Communication Congestion
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Solution Overview
Problem
In business wireless systems, monitoring the communication status and channel resource utilization across multiple base stations is complex due to the assignment of channels in groups, making it difficult to evaluate usage and congestion effectively.
Innovation Solution
A monitoring device and method that receive information on the number of terminal devices registered with each base station, derive congestion indices, and create display data to visualize the number of terminal devices and congestion levels for each base station, facilitating the assessment of communication status and resource sufficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If channels are assigned to groups of terminal devices in business wireless systems, then group communication capability is improved, but monitoring complexity and difficulty of evaluating channel usage and congestion increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a monitoring device as an intermediary component that centralizes the collection, processing, and analysis of channel usage information from multiple base station devices. This mediator aggregates complex group communication data and presents simplified congestion metrics, resolving the contradiction by maintaining group communication capability while reducing monitoring complexity through centralized information processing
Solution Approach 2:
The monitoring device implements feedback mechanisms by continuously collecting channel usage information from base station devices, processing this data to determine congestion states, and providing feedback signals that indicate system status. This feedback loop enables automatic adaptation and simplifies monitoring of group communication channels by transforming complex raw data into actionable congestion indicators
2Productivity
If point-to-multipoint mode of call is supported for intra-group calls, then group communication efficiency is improved, but channel usage complexity and volume of communication between base stations increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the monitoring functions across multiple base station devices into a single centralized monitoring device. By combining channel usage information from all base stations and processing it uniformly, the system maintains efficient point-to-multipoint group communication while reducing the overall complexity of channel management through unified processing and consolidated views of resource utilization
3Measurement precision
If information on number of terminal devices is collected and processed, then congestion monitoring capability is improved, but data processing requirements and system resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring device extracts only the essential congestion-related information from the complete set of channel usage data collected from base station devices. By taking out and processing only the critical metrics needed for congestion determination rather than analyzing all raw communication data, the system achieves precise congestion monitoring capability while minimizing data processing requirements and energy consumption
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AI summary
A plurality of groups each including a plurality of terminal devices are formed, and each of a plurality of base station devices assigns a channel to each group to enable communication from one of the terminal devices included in the group to which the channel is assigned to another terminal device included in the group, and a receiving unit receives information on the number of terminal devices included in the groups registered in each base station device. A display unit displays information indicating the number of terminal devices for each base station device based on the received information.