Mute Notification Buffering for Network Data Exception Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication networks face challenges in managing data buffering during exception conditions, such as buffer capacity exhaustion, leading to dropped data and inefficient resource allocation in data providers like NFps, especially in 3GPP-based networks.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a mute notification mechanism with exception handling instructions that allow data consumers (NFcs) to specify actions on buffered data and subscriptions, enabling negotiation between NFcs and NFps to manage buffer capacity and data handling during exceptions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data is buffered during exception conditions, then data loss is reduced, but buffer capacity is exhausted leading to resource allocation inefficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic buffer management where the data provider can adjust buffering behavior based on current resource availability. The system transitions between different buffering states (full buffering, partial buffering, no buffering) depending on exception conditions and negotiated procedures, making the buffer capacity utilization flexible rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent establishes a feedback mechanism through negotiation between data consumer and data provider. When exception conditions occur, the data provider notifies the data consumer about buffer status and negotiated procedures, allowing the system to adapt buffering behavior based on real-time buffer capacity status and prevent complete exhaustion.
2Ease of operation
If mute notification is implemented with buffering, then data transmission control is improved, but complexity increases when exception conditions occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing negotiation procedures and exception handling rules before actual exception conditions occur. The data consumer and data provider agree on procedures to be executed when specific exception conditions are met, simplifying real-time decision-making during exceptions by pre-defining the response actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a negotiation mechanism as an intermediary layer between data consumer and data provider. This intermediary process allows both parties to agree on exception handling procedures in advance, reducing the complexity of real-time exception management by establishing clear protocols that automatically guide system behavior during exceptions.
3Reliability
If buffer capacity is increased to prevent data loss, then reliability improves, but resource allocation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of buffer capacity from a fixed value to a dynamically adjustable parameter. Based on negotiated procedures and current resource availability, the system adjusts buffering intensity and duration, allowing optimal balance between data loss prevention and resource allocation efficiency under different operating conditions.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry. The at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to send, to a network entity acting as a data provider, at least one request to subscribe to or modify at least one data collection service. The request comprises a mute notification indication indicating that data collected by the at least one data collection service are to be buffered, and a transmission to the data consumer is to be suspended, until a predetermined condition is satisfied. The condition comprises one of a time indication and threshold, and an indication of a procedure to be conducted by the data provider when an exception condition is detected during at least one data collection service.