Network Entity Allocation via Load Ratio Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication networks are inefficient in exploiting available resources as they often allocate network entities to handle both payload and signalling loads, leading to suboptimal performance due to mismatched capabilities between entities handling signalling and payload-intensive user communication signals.
Innovation Solution
A method for allocating network entities based on load attributes, directing payload-intensive signals to payload-optimized entities and signalling-intensive signals to signalling-optimized entities, using a network control entity to determine and initiate the allocation of appropriate network entities through load ratio analysis and relocation procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If network entities are allocated to handle both payload and signalling loads, then network entities can provide mixed capabilities, but network resource utilization becomes inefficient due to mismatched capabilities between entities handling signalling and payload-intensive user communication signals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments network entities into specialized types: payload-optimized network entities for handling payload-intensive signals and signalling-optimized network entities for handling signalling-intensive signals. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing each entity type to be highly specialized rather than providing mixed capabilities, thereby improving network resource utilization while maintaining adaptability through the availability of multiple specialized entity types.
2Productivity
If network entities are specialized for specific load types, then network resource utilization is optimized, but network entity complexity increases due to the need for load attribute determination and entity selection mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network control entity as an intermediary that performs load attribute determination and network entity selection. This intermediary handles the complexity of matching user communication signals with appropriate specialized network entities, thereby resolving the contradiction by centralizing the complex decision-making logic in a dedicated control entity rather than distributing it across all network entities.
3Measurement precision
If load attribute determination is performed for each user communication signal, then accurate network entity allocation is achieved, but processing time increases due to continuous load analysis and entity relocation procedures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by determining load attributes selectively rather than for every single user communication signal. The network control entity determines load attributes based on specific conditions and triggers, performing load analysis only when necessary to initiate entity relocation procedures. This approach maintains accurate network entity allocation while reducing processing time by avoiding continuous load analysis for all signals.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for allocating a network entity for handling user communication signals of a user, the user communication signals comprising payload and signalling load. The method comprises obtaining (801) a load attribute, the load attribute indicating a load ratio between the payload and the signalling load, selecting (803) a network entity upon the basis of the load attribute, and initiating (805) a network entity location procedure to allocate the selected network entity for handling the user communication signals.