Router-Assisted Multipath Transmission for Lower Deployment Costs
Solution Overview
Problem
Current multipath transmission protocols require deployment on servers or network devices, leading to high costs and potential security risks in public networks.
Innovation Solution
A multipath transmission method and device that deploys the protocol on a router, allowing collaboration between the router and mobile terminal to establish multiple data channels, reducing redundancy, and aggregating data for secure transmission without the need for a third-party server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multipath transmission protocol is deployed on server or network device, then data transmission reliability is improved, but deployment cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal itself performs multipath transmission protocol processing without requiring external server deployment. The terminal independently manages multiple network interfaces (cellular, Wi-Fi), establishes multiple data channels, and handles protocol operations locally, enabling self-service multipath transmission that eliminates deployment costs while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a router as an intermediary device that assists the mobile terminal in establishing multiple data channels. The router receives collaboration information from the terminal, provides matching information, and helps coordinate the multipath transmission without requiring server-level deployment, thus reducing costs while improving reliability
2Quantity of substance
If multipath transmission protocol is deployed on server, then network bandwidth is increased, but communication delay increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal preliminarily establishes multiple data channels through multiple network interfaces before actual data transmission occurs. By pre-configuring cellular and Wi-Fi channels and having the router ready with matching information, the system eliminates handoff delays and reduces communication latency when transmitting large volumes of data
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments data transmission into parallel channels through different network interfaces (cellular, Wi-Fi). The mobile terminal divides data flow across multiple independent paths, allowing simultaneous transmission through different networks, thereby increasing effective bandwidth while maintaining low latency through parallel processing
3Device complexity
If conventional TCP protocol is used, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but network resource utilization decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal utilizes multiple network interfaces (cellular, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) that are already present in modern devices, making the multipath transmission implementation universally applicable without requiring specialized hardware. The terminal leverages existing multi-functional capabilities to achieve improved network resource utilization while maintaining implementation simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile terminal autonomously manages multiple network connections and protocol operations without requiring complex external infrastructure. By self-managing the multipath transmission locally, the terminal achieves better network resource utilization while keeping the implementation relatively simple and avoiding complex server-side deployments
Data Source
AI summary
This application provides a router. The router includes a processor and a transceiver. The transceiver is configured to receive collaboration information that is sent by a mobile terminal and used for collaboratively establishing a plurality of data transmission channels. The processor is configured to: run a multipath transmission protocol; identify, based on the multipath transmission protocol, the collaboration information received by the transceiver; and send matching information to the mobile terminal. The transceiver is configured to receive and identify matching acknowledgment information sent by the mobile terminal. The processor is configured to establish the plurality of data transmission channels to the mobile terminal based on the successfully identified matching acknowledgment information. The transceiver is configured to receive data sent by the mobile terminal through the plurality of data transmission channels. The processor is configured to remove redundancy from or aggregate the data to obtain single data.