Virtual User Equipment for Cross-Cell Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile communication devices experience degraded network performance and poor signal quality due to insufficient network resources and overlapping base station coverage, leading to PCI pollution and suboptimal network characteristics.
Innovation Solution
User devices are configured to connect to multiple base stations simultaneously through virtual user equipment (VUEs), allowing for dynamic allocation and scheduling of data sessions based on signal strength and network statistics, thereby aggregating network resources for improved performance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a base station services a large number of wireless devices, then network coverage is expanded, but network performance degrades due to insufficient resources per device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the connection relationship by introducing virtual user equipment (VUEs) as intermediaries. A single physical user device can be divided into multiple virtual connections, each managed separately by different base stations. This allows the network to handle more devices without overloading any single base station, as the load is distributed across multiple VUE connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces virtual user equipment (VUE) as an intermediary layer between physical user devices and base stations. The VUE manager component creates and manages these virtual entities, allowing seamless load distribution and handoff between base stations without requiring direct complex coordination between physical devices and multiple base stations.
2Illumination intensity
If base stations are densified to improve signal quality, then coverage area increases, but PCI pollution occurs due to overlapping coverage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of user equipment (VUEs) that can be assigned to different base stations. Instead of having physical devices directly connect to multiple base stations causing PCI conflicts, virtual copies are used as proxies. Each VUE has its own identity and can be managed independently, allowing overlapping coverage areas to coexist without PCI pollution.
3Productivity
If multiple base stations are used to aggregate network resources, then throughput improves, but connection management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the management of multiple base station connections into a single VUE manager component within the user device. This component handles all VUE creations, assignments, and handoffs centrally, simplifying the user device's role while enabling complex multi-base station aggregation. The base stations themselves remain relatively simple, focusing only on serving their assigned VUEs.
Data Source
AI summary
A user equipment (UE) device may include a memory, a communication interface, and one or more processors. The one or more processors operate to identify a plurality of base stations available for connection via the communication interface and the plurality of antenna components. Virtual user equipment (UE) are connected to the two or more base stations. Data flows for the device are identified. The identified data flows are assigned to the virtual UEs based on the identified network characteristics.