Reliability Enhancement Engine for Multi-Access Traffic Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies lack effective strategies for efficiently managing multi-access traffic in multi-access communications networks to meet diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of various applications.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a reliability enhancement engine for edge-based multi-access traffic management, which identifies flows requiring extra reliability protection, applies network coding, computes coding rates, and distributes traffic across available multi-access links based on reliability requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multi-access traffic is distributed across multiple radio access networks, then reliability and resource utilization are improved, but complexity of traffic management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intelligent traffic manager as an intermediary component that centralizes the complex task of multi-access traffic management. This traffic manager receives data packets, determines optimal distribution paths across multiple radio access networks, and manages the complexity internally while presenting a simplified interface to other system components, thereby resolving the contradiction between improved reliability and increased management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments traffic management into distinct functional components: the intelligent traffic manager handles high-level routing decisions, while individual radio access networks handle specific transmission tasks. This segmentation allows each component to focus on specific aspects of traffic management, improving overall system reliability without requiring any single component to handle all complexity.
2Reliability
If network coding is applied to enhance reliability, then quality of service for delay-sensitive applications is improved, but computational overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies network coding in advance during the traffic distribution phase, before actual data transmission occurs. The intelligent traffic manager encodes and distributes data packets across multiple paths proactively, so that if some packets are lost during transmission, the original data can be reconstructed from the remaining packets without requiring retransmission, thus improving QoS while managing computational overhead efficiently.
3Productivity
If traffic is distributed across multiple paths, then resource utilization is optimized, but difficulty of managing diverse QoS requirements increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic traffic distribution where the intelligent traffic manager continuously monitors network conditions, application QoS requirements, and path availability, then adapts the distribution strategy in real-time. This dynamic approach allows the system to optimize resource utilization while meeting diverse QoS requirements by flexibly adjusting routing decisions based on current system state rather than using static rules.
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AI summary
The present disclosure is related to multi-access traffic management in multi-access computing environments. A reliability enhancement engine (REE) operated by a multi-access multipath traffic manager identifies traffic flows that have high reliability requirements (“reliability flows”) and performs admission control for the reliability flows. The REE determines a coding rate (e.g., a redundancy factor) and traffic distribution strategies for the identified reliability flows. The REE applies cross-access network coding (NC) on the reliability flows, and handles multi-access acknowledgements and traffic pacing, which may involve multiplexing traffic of the reliability flows with non-high-reliability traffic. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.