Partial Failure Messaging in Cellular Gateway Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current cellular network systems fail to efficiently manage partial failures in gateway devices, leading to stale sessions being maintained for extended periods as the authentication device only receives failure information after all gateway device components fail, resulting in unnecessary clearance of all sessions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method where the gateway device transmits a partial failure message to the authentication device, including an identifier of the failed part, allowing the authentication device to specifically clear sessions associated with that part, rather than all sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the authentication device waits for all gateway device parts to fail before receiving failure information, then the system maintains simplicity in failure detection, but stale sessions are maintained for extended periods resulting in loss of time and reduced productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway device is segmented into multiple independent parts (cards), each capable of maintaining sessions. When a part fails, it sends individual failure messages with part identifiers, allowing the authentication device to clear only the affected sessions rather than waiting for complete system failure or clearing all sessions.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway device implements continuous monitoring of its parts and provides immediate feedback to the authentication device when a part fails. This feedback mechanism includes transmitting failure messages with specific part identifiers, enabling real-time session management and preventing extended stale session maintenance.
2Ease of operation
If the authentication device clears all sessions upon receiving any failure message, then session management is simplified, but unnecessary sessions are cleared resulting in loss of information and reduced productivity
Solution Approach 1:
Sessions are segmented and associated with specific gateway device parts through part identifiers. When a failure message is received, the authentication device uses the part identifier to clear only the sessions corresponding to that specific part, preserving valid sessions associated with other healthy parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The failure message includes a part identifier that provides local information about which specific component failed. This allows the authentication device to apply the clearance operation locally to only the affected sessions rather than globally to all sessions, maintaining data integrity for unaffected sessions.
3Measurement precision
If the gateway device transmits detailed partial failure messages with part identifiers, then session management precision is improved, but message complexity and information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The critical part identifier is extracted from the complex failure information and included in the failure message. This extraction approach provides the authentication device with the essential information needed for precise session management without requiring transmission or processing of the entire complex failure state.
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AI summary
A system is configured to: receive a message from a gateway device; identify one or more sessions corresponding to an identifier included in the message; and clear the one or more corresponding sessions. The identifier may correspond to a part of the gateway device where a session is stored or maintained for a mobile device to connect to a server device.