Orchestrator Optimizes Redundant Wireless Data Streams

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current networking solutions are inadequate for highly mobile terminals like autonomous vehicles, requiring exceptional communication reliability and low latency, and are labor-intensive to set up and integrate with applications, while existing technologies fail to efficiently manage data stream optimization across varying network conditions.

Innovation Solution

An orchestrator system that optimizes the assignment of redundant data streams to wireless communication channels using an optimization model, which enforces constraints for latency, quality of service, and communication parameters, and updates assignments based on changes in terminal state and network conditions, leveraging reinforcement learning and simulation to predict wireless communication performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If current networking solutions are used for highly mobile terminals, then setup and integration are simple, but communication reliability and latency performance are inadequate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoidsetup and integration effort

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-configuration and automatic network selection without manual intervention. The orchestrator automatically discovers available networks, evaluates their suitability based on terminal state and requirements, and configures optimal data stream assignments, enabling the system to serve itself rather than requiring operator setup

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts communication parameters including network selection, data stream assignment, transmission quality settings, and routing configurations based on real-time terminal state changes and network conditions, allowing adaptation to mobile environments without fixed configurations

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If redundant data streams are transmitted over multiple wireless communication channels, then communication reliability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data streams into multiple redundant copies and distributes them across different wireless communication channels. Each data stream is divided and transmitted through separate networks, allowing independent failure modes while maintaining overall communication reliability through the segmentation of transmission paths

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The orchestrator provides universal management functionality that handles multiple data streams across multiple networks simultaneously. It performs centralized optimization, monitoring, and reconfiguration for all communication channels, reducing overall system complexity by providing a single multi-functional control point rather than separate management for each channel

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If data stream assignments are dynamically updated based on terminal state changes, then communication performance is optimized, but computational overhead increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidcomputational overhead

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes optimization models and evaluation frameworks before actual data transmission begins. Network characteristics, terminal requirements, and optimization criteria are predetermined, allowing rapid real-time decision-making without extensive computational overhead during active communication

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The orchestrator continuously monitors terminal state and network conditions, using feedback loops to trigger optimization only when significant changes occur. This event-driven approach updates data stream assignments selectively rather than continuously, reducing computational overhead while maintaining communication efficiency through responsive feedback-based adjustments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11706129B2Platform for redundant wireless communications optimization

Publication Date: 2023.07.18 SERVE OPERATING CO

AI summary

A communication system facilities low-latency, high-availability multipath streaming between terminals (e.g., mobile terminals) and a server platform. In an example application, a remote support service operating on the server platform provides remote teleoperation, monitoring, or data processing services to a mobile terminal embodied as a vehicle or robot utilizing a low latency communication link. The low latency link enables a remote operator to receive video or telemetry feeds, and timely monitor and respond to hazards in substantially real-time. The low latency communication link may be achieved even when the data streams are transmitted over public networks incorporating at least one wireless leg, and where individual connections have varying quality of service in terms of delivery latency due to congestion or stochastic packet losses. Assignment of data streams to particular communication channels may be made on an optimization model derived from a machine-learning process or simulation.