Predictive Network Usage Control for Real-Time Transmission Quality
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques for real-time information transmission in smart agriculture and connected car fields suffer from delays in network quality detection, leading to quality deterioration and bandwidth compression due to event-driven reactive responses, which fail to maintain the highest quality and cause inappropriate information setting.
Innovation Solution
A control apparatus that proactively and reactively controls information transmission by determining network usage modes based on predicted network quality and communication priorities, using a determination unit and a setting unit to adjust network usage modes dynamically.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional event-driven reactive response is used for network quality detection, then the system can respond to network quality changes, but there is a delay in follow-up causing quality deterioration and inappropriate information setting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by predicting future network quality based on current and historical data before actual quality deterioration occurs. The determination unit proactively adjusts network usage modes in advance based on predicted quality trends, eliminating the reactive delay inherent in conventional event-driven approaches. This allows the system to maintain optimal information settings before quality degradation happens, rather than responding after the fact.
2Reliability
If real-time information transmission is maintained at highest quality, then information quality is preserved, but bandwidth consumption increases and costs rise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by enabling flexible, dynamic adjustment of network usage modes based on predicted network quality and communication priorities. Instead of statically maintaining highest quality transmission regardless of conditions, the system dynamically adapts information settings to match actual and predicted network states. This allows optimal quality transmission when network conditions permit while reducing bandwidth consumption when conditions deteriorate, achieving a dynamic balance between quality and resource usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by adjusting network usage mode parameters (such as transmission rate, protocol selection, or routing) based on predicted network quality and communication priority levels. The determination unit modifies these parameters proactively to maintain appropriate information quality while optimizing bandwidth consumption. This allows the system to transition between different transmission parameter sets depending on predicted conditions, rather than maintaining fixed high-quality settings that waste bandwidth during poorer network conditions.
3Reliability
If network usage mode is changed based on predicted network quality, then proactive control is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring actual network quality and comparing it with predicted quality, then using this feedback to refine future predictions and adjustments. The determination unit incorporates feedback loops where actual measurement results from the network quality measurement unit validate and improve the accuracy of quality predictions. This feedback mechanism enables proactive control through prediction while managing complexity by using learned patterns rather than requiring complex real-time analysis of all possible network variables.
Data Source
AI summary
A control apparatus includes a processor; and a memory storing instructions that cause the processor to execute a process. The process includes determining a network usage mode of a device on the basis of a prediction value of network quality for each communication priority and requirements related to transmission of information; and setting the network usage mode determined by the determining wherein the determining includes changing the network usage mode on the basis of a quality measurement result for each communication priority of a network used by the device.