Network Controller for Route-Aware Base Station Activation
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Solution Overview
Problem
As high-speed, high-capacity communication networks develop, turning off base stations for energy savings leads to areas with difficult communication, disrupting continuous operation of route search systems.
Innovation Solution
A network controller with processors and memories that acquire operating state information, determine navigation routes, and request activation of off-state base stations along the route to ensure continuous communication and minimize energy consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by stationary object
If base stations are turned off for energy savings, then energy consumption is reduced, but communication continuity is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by determining the navigation route in advance and identifying which base stations will be needed along that route. The network controller proactively activates base stations before users actually need them, ensuring communication continuity while still allowing base stations to be turned off during periods of low demand. This resolves the contradiction by anticipating future communication needs rather than reacting to them.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic base station activation and deactivation based on real-time navigation route information and communication demand patterns. Base stations are not statically on or off, but their state changes dynamically according to predicted user movement and communication needs. This dynamic approach allows the system to reduce energy consumption by turning off base stations when not needed while ensuring communication continuity when users are actively navigating.
2Adaptability or versatility
If base stations are turned off to level used resources, then resource utilization is optimized, but areas with difficult communication spread
Solution Approach 1:
The network controller determines navigation routes and identifies required base stations in advance, proactively activating them before users reach those areas. This preliminary action prevents communication difficulties from occurring in the first place, rather than reacting after problems arise. By anticipating which base stations will be needed, the system can optimize resource utilization by keeping only necessary base stations active.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses feedback from navigation route determination and user movement patterns to continuously adjust base station activation states. The network controller receives information about active navigation routes and uses this feedback to make informed decisions about which base stations to activate or deactivate, optimizing resource utilization while preventing communication difficulties.
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AI summary
A network controller comprising one or more processors and memories in order to make it possible to achieve both continuous operation of a route search system and energy consumption reduction or leveling used resources. The one or more memories store one or more programs. The one or more processors realize, by reading the one or more programs, an operating state information acquirer, a route information acquirer, and an activation request generator. The operating state information acquirer acquires operating state information regarding base stations. The route information acquirer acquires route information indicating a navigation route determined from one or more route candidates from a starting point to a goal point. The activation request generator generates, based on the operating state information regarding each base station corresponding to each area through which the determined navigation route passes, a request for activating each base station in an off state corresponding to each area through which the determined navigation route passes.