Network Selection Parameter Determination for Terminal Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication technologies face challenges in optimizing network selection for terminals to ensure communication quality and reduce ping-pong network selection, particularly due to hardware limitations and power consumption concerns, without effective solutions for selecting the best available network.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus where a terminal acquires and reports signal parameters to a server, which determines and transmits network selection parameters to optimize network registration, allowing the terminal to select the best network based on statistical data for improved communication quality and reduced latency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If terminals select only one or few networks for registration due to hardware limitations or power consumption reduction, then power consumption is reduced and hardware resources are conserved, but communication quality cannot be optimized and ping-pong network selection occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The server performs preliminary network selection by determining network selection parameters based on signal parameters from multiple terminals before the terminals need to make selection decisions. This advance preparation allows terminals to quickly apply pre-determined selection criteria without extensive real-time analysis, reducing their processing power consumption while maintaining reliable communication quality through server-side optimization
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary between multiple terminals and the network infrastructure. It collects signal parameters from terminals, processes this information centrally, and returns optimized network selection parameters to terminals. This intermediary approach allows distributed terminals with limited hardware capabilities to benefit from centralized intelligence, achieving both low terminal power consumption and high communication reliability
2Reliability
If terminals perform comprehensive network selection to ensure communication quality, then communication quality is optimized, but hardware resources are consumed and power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The complex network selection computation is extracted from the terminal and relocated to the server. The terminal only needs to report basic signal parameters and receive pre-computed network selection parameters, rather than performing exhaustive network evaluation algorithms locally. This extraction of computational burden from the terminal reduces its power consumption while maintaining comprehensive network selection capabilities through server-side processing
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of each terminal independently performing comprehensive network selection analysis, the server creates a centralized model of network conditions based on collected signal parameters. This central model serves as a copy or representation of the network state that all terminals can benefit from, eliminating redundant computation across multiple terminals and reducing overall system power consumption while maintaining optimization quality
3Ease of operation
If multiple terminals independently perform network selection without coordination, then each terminal can make autonomous decisions, but ping-pong network selection occurs and network stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback loops where terminals report signal parameters to the server, the server determines network selection parameters based on this feedback, and returns optimized selection criteria to terminals. This continuous feedback mechanism allows terminals to maintain autonomous operation while their decisions are guided by centralized coordination, preventing ping-pong effects through consistent, coordinated network selection across the terminal population
Solution Approach 2:
The server provides a universal network selection parameter determination service that benefits all connected terminals simultaneously. Rather than each terminal operating in complete isolation, the server's centralized determination logic serves multiple terminals with coordinated recommendations, creating a multi-functional system where one entity (the server) performs the selection determination function for many terminals, ensuring network stability while preserving terminal autonomy in parameter application
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AI summary
A network registration method is applied to a terminal and can includes that a signal parameter of a network position where the terminal is presently located is acquired, and the network position and the signal parameter are reported to a server, the network position and the signal parameter being configured to determine a network selection parameter. The method can further include that the network selection parameter is received from the server, and network registration is performed according to the network selection parameter.