Rate Bucket Selection for Adaptive V2X Data Encoding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication technologies for vehicles lack diversity in data rates, struggle with backwards interoperability, and have a narrow definition of data rates that do not account for varying application requirements, leading to inefficiencies in vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications.

Innovation Solution

Implementing rate buckets that bundle modulation, coding rates, and coding schemes into finite groups, along with mechanisms like Poke and Pull for capability negotiation, and enhancing WAVE Service Advertisement (WSA) messages to indicate specific rate buckets and encoding capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a single data rate definition is used in wireless communication, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different application requirements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata rate definition complexityVSAvoidapplication-specific data rate adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the data rate definition into multiple rate buckets, where each bucket represents a group of PHY rates with similar characteristics. This segmentation allows the system to select appropriate rate buckets for different application scenarios (e.g., safety messages vs. non-safety messages) without managing every individual PHY rate, thus reducing complexity while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of data rate representation from individual PHY rates to grouped rate buckets. By defining rate buckets with specific characteristics (such as robustness levels, throughput ranges), the system can adapt to different application requirements by selecting appropriate rate buckets, effectively changing how data rates are parameterized and managed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If multiple encoding capabilities are supported for different applications, then communication reliability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication reliabilityVSAvoidencoding capability management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple encoding capabilities into unified rate buckets that can represent groups of PHY rates with similar reliability characteristics. Instead of managing separate encoding capabilities for different applications, the system combines them into rate buckets that can be selected based on application requirements, reducing management complexity while maintaining support for multiple encoding approaches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The rate bucket structure serves multiple functions: it groups PHY rates, defines reliability characteristics, and provides application-specific selection criteria. This multi-functional design allows the same rate bucket mechanism to support different encoding capabilities and reliability requirements across various applications without requiring separate management systems for each.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If rate buckets are implemented to group modulation and coding schemes, then adaptability to application requirements is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication-specific rate adaptabilityVSAvoidrate bucket management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining rate buckets with specific characteristics and associations with application types before actual communication occurs. The rate buckets are prepared in advance with their properties (robustness, throughput ranges, associated PHY rates) configured, so that during communication, the system can quickly select the appropriate pre-defined rate bucket for the given application scenario without complex real-time calculations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3788818B1Using rate buckets
Publication Date: 2026.01.07 MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LTD
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AI summary

In some examples, a wireless device selects a selected rate bucket of a plurality of different rate buckets, a rate bucket of the plurality of different rate buckets comprising a plurality of coding rates.