Satellite Backhaul QoS Conversion Table for Base Station Priority Isolation

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Solution Overview

Problem

In mobile communication systems using satellite backhaul links, existing methods struggle to effectively convert quality of service (QoS) indicators between different communication sections while preventing interference between base stations, leading to issues like data stagnation due to priority conflicts.

Innovation Solution

A satellite communication device that includes a storage unit for a conversion table and a quality of service indicator updating unit. The updating unit evaluates the quality of service for each indicator and updates the priority in the conversion table, ensuring that QoS indicators are converted while minimizing interference between base stations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a simple method of converting the quality of service indicator is used, then the conversion process is simple, but priorities of the quality of service among the ground base stations affect one another to cause data with low priority to dwell or stagnate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconversion process complexityVSAvoiddata transmission reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the QoS indicator conversion process by introducing separate conversion tables for different communication sections (satellite backhaul link and ground base station links). Each conversion table independently manages priority mappings, preventing priority conflicts between base stations while maintaining simple conversion operations within each segment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary conversion table mechanism that acts as a mediator between the satellite backhaul link QoS indicators and the ground base station QoS indicators. This intermediary structure allows independent priority management for each base station, preventing direct interference between their priority assignments while still enabling effective QoS conversion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If radio resource allocation is used to maintain quality of service, then the quality of service can be maintained, but adjustment for ensuring the quality of service cannot be performed for each base station on the satellite backhaul link that covers a wide area like satellite communication and accommodates a large number of base stations at the same time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of service maintenanceVSAvoidper-base-station adjustment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by allowing each ground base station to have its own QoS indicator conversion table with customized priority mappings tailored to its specific requirements and service characteristics. This enables independent adjustment of QoS parameters for each base station while maintaining overall system QoS maintenance through the coordinated use of these localized conversion tables.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Device complexity

If the entire network has a unified quality of service indicator, then the quality of service management is simplified, but the quality of service cannot be adjusted for each individual base station

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveQoS management complexityVSAvoidindividual base station adjustment capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the unified QoS management into multiple independent conversion tables, each associated with a specific communication section or base station. This segmentation maintains simplicity by keeping each conversion table's management straightforward while enabling individual base station adjustments through the collection of segmented conversion tables.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12323224B2Satellite communication device, core network device, control circuit, storage medium, and quality of service control method
Publication Date: 2025.06.03 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP
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AI summary

A satellite communication ground station as a satellite communication device performs communication control of a satellite backhaul link in a mobile communication system in which a ground base station and a core network device are connected via the satellite backhaul link, the satellite communication ground station including: a storage unit that stores a conversion table used in converting quality of service indicators that have different forms in the mobile communication system and the satellite backhaul link; and a quality of service indicator updating unit that updates priority of the quality of service indicator including priority of wireless communication of the satellite backhaul link in the conversion table on the basis of a result of evaluation of quality of service for each quality of service indicator.