Multi-Path Data Transmission via Proxy Node Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multi-path wireless communication techniques require extensive modifications to the user equipment's network stack, including unlocking and super-user access, which is commercially unviable and poses security risks, making it difficult to deploy multi-path communications without invalidating warranties and incurring significant costs.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating conversion logic within the user domain to convert between single and multiple data streams, allowing for multi-path communication without modifying the network control domain or kernel, using standardized and proprietary protocols for routing and error correction, and utilizing an intermediate proxy node for seamless data stream conversion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multi-path communication techniques are implemented by modifying the network stack in user equipment, then multi-path transmission capability is improved, but device complexity and ease of manufacture deteriorate due to required unlocking, super-user access, and extensive kernel modifications
Solution Approach 1:
An intermediate proxy node is introduced between the user equipment and the network. This proxy node handles the complex multi-path transmission logic, protocol conversion, and path management, allowing standard user equipment to benefit from multi-path capabilities without modifying their network stacks. The proxy acts as a mediator that translates between single-path and multi-path communication modes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: standard user equipment, intermediate proxy node, and network infrastructure. The complex multi-path functionality is isolated in the proxy node segment, while user equipment remains simple and unmodified. This segmentation allows independent deployment and maintenance of different system components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive modifications to the network control domain or kernel are made to enable multi-path communication, then multi-path transmission is achieved, but ease of operation and reliability worsen due to warranty voidance and security risks
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediate proxy node serves as a secure intermediary that implements multi-path functionality without requiring modifications to the user equipment's protected network control domain. This approach maintains the integrity of the device's operating system and kernel, preserving warranties and security certificates while still enabling advanced communication capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides multi-path communication through external services (proxy nodes) rather than requiring the user equipment to self-modify its core system. The proxy nodes handle all complex operations, allowing standard devices to access advanced features without compromising their own reliability or security foundations.
3Ease of manufacture
If multi-path communication is implemented without modifying user equipment, then ease of manufacture and deployment are improved, but adaptability worsens due to limited protocol support and routing flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The intermediate proxy node provides comprehensive protocol support and routing flexibility that would be difficult to implement in every user equipment device. The proxy can be updated and configured independently to support new protocols and routing strategies, while user equipment remains simple and easy to manufacture. This centralizes adaptability in the proxy layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediate proxy node is designed as a universal platform that can serve multiple functions: protocol conversion, path management, error correction, and routing optimization. This single multi-functional component replaces the need for each user equipment to implement multiple specialized functions, simplifying device manufacturing while maintaining system versatility.
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AI summary
A user equipment, intermediate proxy node, method and computer program are disclosed. The user equipment comprises a network control domain and a user domain and is operable to receive and transmit data via multiple communication paths. The user equipment has conversion logic within the user domain operable to convert between a single data stream and multiple data streams formed from the single data stream, such that at least two of the multiple communication paths may be used for transmission of the multiple data streams formed from the single data stream.