Network Traffic Control via Priority Queue Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices using a basic FIFO traffic control scheme often prioritize low-importance processes, leading to network traffic deterioration, resulting in slower file transfer rates, buffering, and loading delays, especially when high-priority traffic is not processed quickly.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor that verifies app information, device state, and network packet information to determine the processing order based on stored rules, prioritizing high-importance traffic by assigning it to higher processing queues, ensuring faster processing of critical network traffic.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a basic FIFO traffic control scheme is used, then the control method is simple, but high-priority network traffic is not processed quickly enough
Solution Approach 1:
The network traffic is segmented into multiple queues based on priority levels. The traffic control scheme divides the single processing stream into multiple priority-based streams, allowing high-priority traffic to be separated and processed independently from low-priority traffic, thus resolving the contradiction between simple control and fast processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The traffic control scheme changes the parameter of processing order from a single FIFO sequence to multiple priority-based sequences. By introducing priority levels as a new parameter, the system can dynamically adjust which traffic is processed first, enabling fast processing of high-priority traffic while maintaining a structured control approach.
2Device complexity
If a basic FIFO traffic control scheme is used, then the processing order is simple, but network traffic deterioration occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The processing order is segmented into multiple priority levels rather than using a single uniform sequence. This segmentation allows critical network traffic to be assigned to higher-priority queues that are processed before lower-priority queues, preventing traffic deterioration while keeping the processing structure organized and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The traffic control scheme incorporates feedback mechanisms that monitor network traffic characteristics and adjust processing orders accordingly. By continuously evaluating traffic conditions and dynamically adjusting priority assignments, the system maintains high reliability in network traffic quality while avoiding overly complex static processing orders.
3Loss of time
If high-priority traffic is processed faster, then user experience improves, but the traffic control mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The traffic control mechanism applies preliminary action by pre-classifying network traffic into priority queues before processing. By assigning priority levels and queue positions in advance based on traffic characteristics, the system enables fast processing of high-priority traffic without requiring complex real-time decision-making during processing, thus reducing traffic delay while limiting mechanism complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The traffic control mechanism uses parameter changes by introducing priority levels as a controllable variable. This parameter allows the system to adjust processing speed for different traffic types without fundamentally changing the underlying processing architecture, enabling improved user experience for time-sensitive applications while maintaining a relatively simple and manageable control mechanism.
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AI summary
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a memory configured to store processing rules of network traffic and a processor configured to determine an order where the network traffic is processed, depending on a rule to be applied, the rule corresponding to the at least one of app information of an application corresponding to at least one process which causes the network traffic, device state information, or network packet information among the processing rules.