Vehicle Platoon D2D Data Pooling for Wireless Connectivity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless connectivity methods for vehicle platoons, such as V2V and cellular communications, are inadequate for data-intensive activities like graphic-intensive online gaming and video streaming, leading to overused cellular data, sluggish performance, and reduced battery life.
Innovation Solution
A method that enables on-demand wireless connectivity and data pooling using device-to-device (D2D) communications within a vehicle platoon, leveraging mobile edge computing (MEC) capabilities to offload data-intensive tasks and reduce cellular network congestion, allowing vehicles to share resources and maintain quality of service and experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If V2V and cellular communications are used for data-intensive activities, then wireless connectivity is provided, but cellular data is overused, performance becomes sluggish, and battery life decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines V2V communication with D2D communication to create a hybrid communication system. This merging allows the system to leverage both cellular infrastructure (V2V) and direct device-to-device links (D2D), enabling data-intensive activities to use the more efficient D2D path when available while maintaining backward compatibility with traditional cellular communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication manager as an intermediary component that intelligently routes data traffic between V2V and D2D communication channels. This mediator analyzes the specific data requirements and selects the most appropriate communication path, directing data-intensive applications through D2D to reduce cellular data usage while maintaining connection reliability.
2Ease of operation
If V2V and cellular communications are used for data-intensive activities, then wireless connectivity is provided, but performance becomes sluggish
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines V2V communication with D2D communication to create a hybrid communication system. This merging allows the system to leverage both cellular infrastructure (V2V) and direct device-to-device links (D2D), enabling data-intensive activities to use the more efficient D2D path when available while maintaining backward compatibility with traditional cellular communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication manager as an intermediary component that intelligently routes data traffic between V2V and D2D communication channels. This mediator analyzes the specific data requirements and selects the most appropriate communication path, directing data-intensive applications through D2D to reduce cellular data usage while maintaining connection reliability.
3Ease of operation
If V2V and cellular communications are used for data-intensive activities, then wireless connectivity is provided, but battery life decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines V2V communication with D2D communication to create a hybrid communication system. This merging allows the system to leverage both cellular infrastructure (V2V) and direct device-to-device links (D2D), enabling data-intensive activities to use the more efficient D2D path when available while maintaining backward compatibility with traditional cellular communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication manager as an intermediary component that intelligently routes data traffic between V2V and D2D communication channels. This mediator analyzes the specific data requirements and selects the most appropriate communication path, directing data-intensive applications through D2D to reduce cellular data usage while maintaining connection reliability.
4Use of energy by moving object
If D2D communications are used to offload data-intensive tasks, then cellular data usage is reduced and performance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication system into distinct functional modules: a communication manager for intelligent routing decisions, V2V communication components for cellular-based communication, and D2D communication components for direct peer-to-peer communication. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and managed separately, reducing the perceived complexity while enabling sophisticated multi-mode operation.
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AI summary
A method of facilitating on-demand wireless connectivity and data pooling with a vehicle platoon. The method includes detecting a potential host vehicle within a predetermined radius from the requesting vehicle; sending a request message to the potential host vehicle requesting to join the potential host vehicle in a vehicle platoon and to execute an application (APP) by utilizing the vehicle platoon's mobile edge computing (MEC) capabilities; sending a reply message by the host vehicle to join the potential host vehicle in the vehicle platoon; joining the potential host vehicle, by the requesting vehicle, in the vehicle platoon; and wirelessly transmitting to the potential host vehicle in the utilization of the host vehicle's MEC capabilities by pooling the APP data. The vehicle platoon is configured with an advance driver assisted system (ADAS) wireless communications, and MEC capabilities. A MEC module is disposed in at least one of the platoon vehicles.