Sensor Wired Relay for Wireless Communication Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless communication networks face significant quality degradation due to RF interference, which causes communication messages to be dropped, especially voice messages, leading to jitter and poor communication quality.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced where a sensor, located separately from access points, monitors communication messages and retransmits them via a wired medium when the number of retransmissions exceeds a predetermined threshold, ensuring that communication messages are delivered to the destination access point, thereby preventing message loss and improving network quality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If communication messages are transmitted wirelessly through access points, then network coverage and mobility are improved, but message delivery reliability deteriorates due to RF interference
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wired communication path as an intermediary medium between client stations and access points. When wireless transmission fails due to RF interference, the sensor captures the original message and forwards it through the wired medium, which acts as a mediator to ensure reliable delivery without compromising network coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The sensor continuously monitors wireless communication channels and prepares alternative transmission paths in advance. When message transmission failures are detected, the sensor has already captured and stored the original messages, ready to forward them through the wired medium, providing a cushioning effect against communication failures.
2Ease of operation
If wireless transmission is used to maintain network flexibility, then ease of operation is improved, but communication quality deteriorates due to message dropping and jitter
Solution Approach 1:
The wired communication path serves as an intermediary that preserves network flexibility while ensuring communication quality. The sensor captures messages via wireless transmission (maintaining flexibility) and forwards them through the wired medium (ensuring quality), eliminating message dropping and jitter without requiring physical changes to the network infrastructure.
3Reliability
If multiple retransmission attempts are made over wireless channels, then message delivery reliability is improved, but loss of time increases due to repeated transmission failures
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor captures and stores original messages in advance, creating a cushion of ready-to-forward messages. When wireless retransmission attempts fail, the sensor immediately forwards the pre-captured message through the wired medium, eliminating the need for repeated wireless retransmission attempts and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent substitutes the wireless transmission mechanism with a wired transmission mechanism for message forwarding. The wired medium provides more reliable and faster transmission compared to repeated wireless attempts, replacing the mechanical retransmission process with a more efficient electronic forwarding process through the wired medium.
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AI summary
A communication network comprises a plurality of access points, a plurality of stations wirelessly communicating with the plurality of access points and at least one sensor located at a different location from each of the plurality of access points for improving communication quality in the communication network. The sensor in the communication network senses a communication message transmitted from a source station and destined for a destination access point on a wireless communication channel in the communication network. The sensor further determines a number of retransmissions of the communication message from the source station. The sensor, upon determining that the determined number of retransmissions of the communication message is at least equal to a predetermined threshold, forwards the communication message to the destination access point through the wired medium.