Multi-link Aggregation Link Management via Traffic Identifier Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless communication systems face challenges in managing multi-link aggregation efficiently, leading to suboptimal data throughput and spectral efficiency due to limitations in mapping traffic identifiers to wireless links and managing data flows across multiple bands.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a multi-link operation device that generates messages mapping traffic identifiers to link parameters and processes packets based on these mappings across multiple wireless links, enabling efficient data transmission and reception across multiple bands, thereby improving channel diversity and throughput.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multi-link aggregation is implemented to improve data throughput, then bandwidth capacity increases, but link management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments traffic identifiers into multiple groups, with each group mapped to a specific wireless link. This segmentation allows independent management of each link while maintaining overall aggregation benefits, reducing the complexity of managing all links uniformly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a link management entity that acts as an intermediary between the multi-link aggregation protocol and the individual wireless links. This intermediary handles the complex mapping and routing decisions, simplifying the overall system architecture and making link management more tractable.
2Loss of energy
If traffic is distributed across multiple wireless links, then spectral efficiency improves, but packet routing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning specific traffic identifier groups to specific wireless links based on their characteristics. Each link is optimized for its assigned traffic type, improving spectral efficiency while keeping routing decisions localized and simpler rather than requiring global optimization across all links.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary mapping of traffic identifiers to wireless links during connection establishment. This pre-configuration simplifies real-time packet routing decisions, as the mapping is predetermined and stored, eliminating the need for complex real-time routing calculations.
3Reliability
If multiple bands are used for communication, then channel diversity improves, but system configuration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal link identification and mapping mechanism that works across multiple wireless bands and frequencies. This universal approach allows the same traffic identifier to be mapped to different physical links on different bands without requiring separate configuration systems for each band, reducing overall configuration complexity.
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AI summary
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for multi-link aggregation in wireless communications. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a multi-link operation device configured to generate and output for transmission a message indicating a mapping of each of a plurality of traffic identifiers (TIDs) to one or more parameters associated with each of a plurality of wireless links. In some aspects, another apparatus may obtain a message via at least one of a plurality of wireless links indicating a mapping of each of a plurality of TIDs to one or more parameters associated with each the plurality of wireless links, obtain a sequence of packets associated with at least one of the plurality of TIDs via one or more of the plurality of wireless links, and process the sequence of packets based on the mapping indicated via the message.