Task Anchor Routing for QoS-Aware Task-Based Communication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless communication systems are session-centric and lack the ability to support task-based management and control, which is necessary for ensuring quality of service (QoS) in networks providing computing, AI, and data processing services.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a task-based communication method and apparatus that deploys a task-centric communication architecture, utilizing cluster control nodes (cNode) and task control functions (TCF) in access and core networks to manage and control tasks at a granular level, enabling efficient collaboration of heterogeneous resources such as computing, intelligence, and sensing resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a session-centric architecture is used for management and control, then session QoS assurance can be implemented, but task-based management and control cannot be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the network architecture into multiple functional nodes including session management functions and task management functions. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously support both session-centric operations and task-based management by distributing responsibilities across specialized components, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining session QoS and enabling task-based control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a task management function that can operate within the existing session management framework. This multi-functional approach allows the same network infrastructure to handle both traditional session-based services and new task-based services, achieving adaptability without proportionally increasing architecture complexity.
2Productivity
If task requests are routed without preconfigured mapping relationships, then flexibility is maintained, but task access efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preconfigured mapping relationships between task types and network nodes before task execution. This preliminary configuration stores optimization information about which nodes are best suited for specific task types, allowing the system to quickly route tasks along pre-determined efficient paths without complex real-time decision-making, thus improving task access efficiency while keeping routing logic manageable.
3Reliability
If heterogeneous resources are collaboratively scheduled for task completion, then task QoS can be ensured, but resource coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a task management function as an intermediary layer between heterogeneous resources (computing, storage, networking) and task requirements. This intermediary consolidates resource scheduling decisions, manages resource allocation, and coordinates collaborative execution, thereby ensuring task QoS while preventing unmanageable complexity in resource coordination by centralizing control logic.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of this application provide a task-based communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: respectively deploying task anchors TAs in a core network and an access network independently, so that a terminal device can send a task request to a first node; and the first node selects an appropriate TA based on the task request, and indicates a type of the TA to the terminal device, and the terminal device sends the task request to the TA based on the type of the TA; or the first node directly forwards the task request to the TA, and the TA completes TE deployment and executes a specific task. It can be learned that, the first node selects the TA, so that complexity of the terminal device can be reduced; and the terminal device senses the type of the TA.