Transportable Profiles for Deployable Wireless Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Deployable wireless communications systems face challenges in providing reliable access to services during emergencies, as pre-loaded profiles may become outdated or invalid, and there is a risk of missing profiles for new devices or users, leading to potential communication disruptions.
Innovation Solution
Each wireless communications device transports and updates its transportable deployable profile from the backend system during normal operations, which is then used to connect to the deployable system, eliminating the need for pre-loaded profiles and ensuring current access credentials, with the device serving as a delivery mechanism for its profile.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If profiles are pre-loaded onto deployable systems, then devices can quickly connect to the deployable system, but the profiles may become outdated or invalid, leading to communication disruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having devices obtain and store transportable deployable profiles from the backend system during normal operations before emergencies occur. This ensures profiles are current and valid when needed, eliminating the need to rely on potentially outdated pre-loaded profiles while maintaining quick connection capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses copying by creating transportable copies of profiles that devices can carry and present to the deployable system. Instead of relying on a single centralized set of pre-loaded profiles, each device maintains its own copy of the necessary profile information, ensuring reliability without sacrificing connection speed.
2Ease of operation
If profiles are pre-loaded onto deployable systems, then access credentials are available immediately, but there is a risk of missing profiles for new devices or users
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by enabling devices to autonomously obtain their own transportable deployable profiles directly from the backend system. Each device is responsible for acquiring and managing its own profile information, which eliminates the need for the deployable system to pre-load profiles for all possible devices. This approach ensures ease of operation while simultaneously improving adaptability, as any device that can access the backend system can obtain the necessary credentials.
3Speed
If the deployable system stores profiles locally, then connection speed is improved, but the system complexity and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the profile storage function from the deployable system and relocates it to the individual devices themselves. Each device stores its own transportable deployable profile locally, while the deployable system maintains a minimal database for verification and management. This extraction reduces the complexity and storage requirements of the deployable system while maintaining fast profile access capabilities through local storage at the device level.
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AI summary
A deployable wireless communications system includes memory, an antenna, and a processor connected to the memory and the antenna. The processor is configured to execute instructions to control the antenna to provide a deployable wireless network to wireless communications devices and to provide access for the wireless communications devices to the deployable wireless network according to profiles of each of the plurality of wireless communications devices stored in the memory. The system further includes an import service executable by the processor to import into the memory a profile carried by a wireless communications device. The profile is to provide access for the wireless communications device to the deployable wireless network.