Feedback-Driven Queue Admission Control for Data Loss and Delay

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional queuing systems face issues with data blocking, causing delays and degradation when queues are full, or data loss when they are non-blocking, leading to inefficiencies and errors.

Innovation Solution

Implementing intelligent queuing with feedback-driven admission controls that dynamically change between blocking and non-blocking states based on transmission success rates, using exponential decay filters to adjust queue states based on success and failure conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a queue is set to blocking state, then data loss is reduced, but waiting time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata loss preventionVSAvoidwaiting time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The queue dynamically switches between blocking and non-blocking states based on transmission success rates. When success rate exceeds threshold, queue becomes non-blocking to reduce waiting time; when success rate drops below threshold, queue becomes blocking to prevent data loss. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by adjusting queue behavior according to real-time transmission conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors transmission success rates and uses this feedback to adjust queue state. The exponential decay filter processes success/failure signals to determine when to switch queue states. This feedback mechanism ensures the queue adapts to changing transmission conditions, balancing data loss prevention with waiting time reduction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of time

If a queue is set to non-blocking state, then waiting time is reduced, but data loss increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewaiting timeVSAvoiddata loss
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The queue transitions to non-blocking state only when transmission success rate exceeds the threshold, indicating reliable downstream system performance. This dynamic state change allows the system to reduce waiting time during favorable conditions while maintaining data integrity through state-aware admission control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the queue's operational parameter (blocking vs. non-blocking) based on the transmission success rate parameter. When success rate crosses the threshold boundary, the queue parameter switches accordingly, enabling the system to optimize between waiting time and data loss based on current transmission conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If transmission retries are increased, then data loss is reduced, but transmission time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransmission successVSAvoidtransmission time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary admission control by checking queue state before allowing data entry. When queue is in non-blocking state with high success rate, data is transmitted immediately without unnecessary retries. When success rate drops, the system prevents new data entry proactively, avoiding wasted retry time and reducing overall transmission time while maintaining reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The exponential decay filter continuously processes transmission success/failure feedback to adjust the effective transmission strategy. By weighting recent successes more heavily and decaying older information, the system adapts retry behavior to current conditions, reducing unnecessary retries when success rate is high and preventing data loss when success rate drops.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12562997B2Intelligent queuing with feedback-driven admission controls
Publication Date: 2026.02.24 CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
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AI summary

Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing intelligent queuing with feedback-driven admission controls. In various embodiments, a computing system may send, to a downstream system, first data among a plurality of data that is stored in a queue; may determine whether or not the first data has been successfully transmitted to and received by the downstream system; based on a determination that the first data has not been successfully received by the downstream system and when the first queue is in a first state, may analyze a number of successful transmission attempts and a number of unsuccessful transmission attempts within a first predetermined window, to determine whether a first trigger event has occurred; and if so, may change a state of the queue from the first state to a second state, the first and second states of the queue defining how data is enqueued by the queue.