Receiving Window Configuration for Point-to-Multipoint Data Integrity

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Solution Overview

Problem

In wireless communication systems, point-to-multipoint service data transmission often results in data loss due to incorrect configuration of receiving windows, leading to misinterpretation of received packets as duplicates or corrupted data.

Innovation Solution

Configuring the receiving entity to set the receiving window size to zero for point-to-multipoint services, ensuring all received data blocks are processed as new, thereby minimizing data loss and correcting sequence number handling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a receiving window is configured for point-to-multipoint service data reception, then data can be received with sequence number validation, but data loss occurs when packets are misinterpreted as duplicates or corrupted data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integrityVSAvoiddata loss
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the receiving window size parameter from a non-zero value to zero specifically for point-to-multipoint service data reception. This parameter change disables sequence number validation that was causing packets to be misinterpreted as duplicates, thereby preventing data loss while maintaining the ability to receive all incoming packets correctly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-generated harmful factors

If sequence number validation is performed on received packets, then duplicate detection is enabled, but valid packets are incorrectly identified as duplicates in point-to-multipoint services

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveduplicate detection capabilityVSAvoidvalid packet rejection
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making the receiving window size configuration service-specific. For point-to-multipoint services, the receiving window size is set to zero, disabling sequence number validation locally for this service type. This allows sequence number validation to remain active for other services where it is appropriate, while preventing false duplicate detection in point-to-multipoint contexts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If the receiving window size is non-zero, then sequence number continuity can be verified, but data loss occurs due to misinterpretation of sequence numbers in point-to-multipoint services

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesequence number verification accuracyVSAvoiddata reception reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the conventional approach by setting the receiving window size to zero instead of a non-zero value. This inversion disables sequence number continuity verification that was causing reliable data reception to fail, and instead enables all received packets to be accepted as valid, thereby improving data reception reliability for point-to-multipoint services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentEP2420014B1Method of receiving a point-to-multipoint service in a wireless communication system
Publication Date: 2017.09.20 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and user equipment providing wireless communication services, and a method of transmitting and receiving data between a terminal and a base station in an evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) that has evolved from a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) or a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, and more particularly, to a method of receiving a point-to-multipoint service data, and it may be an object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of receiving the point-to-multipoint service data in a wireless communication system in order to minimize a data loss by a reception entity.