Smart Device Spectrum Assignment for Smart Home Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart home devices often default to suboptimal communication channels, leading to network performance degradation due to varying operational characteristics and bandwidth requirements, causing latency and jitter issues.
Innovation Solution
A computing device acts as a communication hub, scanning available channels, determining their characteristics, and managing smart home devices to distribute network connections optimally based on channel and device requirements, performing load balancing to prevent channel overload and ensure optimal performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If smart home devices default to suboptimal communication channels, then device simplicity is maintained, but network performance degrades due to latency and jitter
Solution Approach 1:
A communication hub is introduced as an intermediary device between smart home devices and communication channels. The hub scans available channels, determines their characteristics (bandwidth, latency, jitter), and manages the distribution of network connections to multiple channels based on device requirements, thereby improving network performance while keeping end devices simple
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically determines and changes communication parameters by scanning channel characteristics and adjusting the distribution of network connections based on real-time channel performance data, optimizing network performance adaptively
2Device complexity
If multiple smart home devices use the same communication channel, then device complexity is reduced, but channel overload occurs causing congestion and performance degradation
Solution Approach 1:
The communication channel is segmented into multiple parallel channels, and the hub manages the distribution of network connections across these segments. By dividing the load across multiple channels rather than concentrating it on a single channel, the system prevents overload while maintaining simple device-level connections
Solution Approach 2:
The hub continuously monitors channel characteristics and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust the distribution of network connections, optimizing load balancing in real-time based on channel performance data
3Reliability
If the communication hub manages and controls incoming and outgoing communication, then network performance is optimized through load balancing, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication hub acts as a centralized intermediary that handles all communication management tasks. By concentrating complexity in a dedicated hub rather than distributing it across multiple devices, the system optimizes network performance while keeping individual device complexity low
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method implemented by a computing device in a network. In some examples, the method includes scanning to identify communication channels available in a same location as the computing device. The method also includes determining characteristics of the identified communication channels and determining characteristics associated with smart home devices in the same location as the computing device. The computing device functions as a communication hub that manages and controls incoming and outgoing communication on at least some of the identified communication channels by at least some of the smart home devices. The method also includes controlling the smart home devices to distribute network connections of the smart home devices among the identified communication channels based on the determined characteristics of the identified communication channels and the determined characteristics associated with the smart home devices in the same location as the computing device.