Context-Aware Smart Gateway for Multi-Hop Wireless Link Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication systems face challenges in efficiently managing radio resources based on context and usage, particularly for mobile devices that need to adapt to varying communication channels and optimize energy consumption while providing reliable connectivity across different wireless networks.
Innovation Solution
A smart personal connect gateway with a context-aware radio resource management system that selects optimal wireless links by assessing user profiles, wireless link conditions, and energy consumption, using eSIMs to switch between service providers and protocols, and establishing multi-hop pathways to ensure efficient and cost-effective communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a mobile device switches between different wireless networks and service providers to optimize communication, then connectivity reliability is improved, but device complexity increases due to multiple radios and protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway device as an intermediary between mobile devices and wireless networks. The gateway consolidates multiple radio interfaces and service provider connections, managing network switching and protocol handling centrally rather than requiring each mobile device to have multiple radios. This mediator approach maintains connectivity reliability while reducing individual device complexity.
2Reliability
If a mobile device continuously monitors and switches between wireless links to optimize performance, then communication quality is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway acts as an energy-efficient intermediary by centralizing the computationally intensive tasks of wireless link monitoring, quality assessment, and switching decisions. Mobile devices can maintain simpler, lower-power connections to the gateway while the gateway handles the complex real-time optimization across multiple networks, thereby improving communication quality without proportionally increasing device energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing multiple wireless links from the gateway to different service providers and networks before mobile devices need them. The gateway proactively monitors and assesses link qualities in advance, preparing optimized routing paths so that when mobile devices connect, the complex monitoring and switching has already been partially completed, reducing real-time energy requirements.
3Reliability
If multiple wireless links are established for multi-hop communication, then network coverage and reliability are improved, but device complexity and power requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the multi-hop wireless network into distinct functional components: mobile devices with simple single-link connections to gateways, and gateway devices with multiple links to different networks. This segmentation allows mobile devices to remain simple while the gateways handle the complexity of establishing and managing multiple wireless links for comprehensive network coverage and reliable multi-hop communication.
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AI summary
An information handling system functioning as a smart personal connect gateway includes a wireless adapter for communicating with a plurality of wireless links and a storage device for storing a spatial-temporal user profile comprising wireless device usage trend data for a plurality of locations where the smart personal connect gateway has operated. The smart personal connect gateway further includes a positional detector to detect a location of the smart personal connect gateway and an application processor to correlate the wireless device usage trend data to a location and to determine a list of optimal wireless service carriers and available wireless protocols at the location based on a mobile wireless traffic report with a spatial-temporal radio frequency profile indicating signal quality for the plurality of wireless links and the wireless device usage trend data for the location. The smart personal connect gateway application processor selects an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) for one of the optimal wireless links for an electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) programmable to switch between multiple available wireless service carriers and then switches the wireless adapter to the selected optimal wireless link.