Open Mobile Network Module Integration With Hierarchical Error Codes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless systems face challenges in efficiently integrating and managing modular components from diverse vendors in disaggregated and open radio access networks, lacking a standardized approach for error detection and correction during integration.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for activating and integrating open modules into wireless systems, utilizing a hierarchical error code system to facilitate error detection and correction, enabling plug-and-play functionality and operational state management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If modular components from diverse vendors are integrated into disaggregated radio access networks, then adaptability and innovation are improved, but integration complexity and error management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the radio access network into modular functional units (centralized radio unit, distributed unit, remote unit) that can be independently selected, configured, and integrated from different vendors. Each module has defined interfaces and capabilities that can be combined through the module selection and integration manager, enabling adaptability without proportionally increasing integration complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The module selection and integration manager implements universal interface standards and protocols that allow modular components from diverse vendors to be integrated through common mechanisms. The hierarchical error code system provides a universal error detection and correction framework that works across all vendor modules, reducing integration complexity despite increased adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If plug-and-play functionality is implemented for modular components, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability and error detection capability may worsen without standardized error codes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary error detection and correction by implementing a hierarchical error code system that is pre-configured and integrated into the module selection and integration manager. Error codes are assigned and validated during the module integration process before operational deployment, ensuring reliability is maintained while preserving plug-and-play ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The module selection and integration manager implements feedback mechanisms that monitor module integration status, detect errors using hierarchical error codes, and provide corrective actions. This automated feedback loop maintains reliability by continuously detecting and reporting errors while preserving the ease of operation through self-diagnosis and automated error handling.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including facilitating activation of a first module for a wireless system; integrating the first module into the wireless system; checking for errors during the integration of the first module in the wireless system; responsive to a determination that the integrating of the first module is error free, placing the wireless system in an operational state; and receiving an operational error code from an originating module. Other embodiments are disclosed.