Wearable Network Access via Intelligent Terminal Relay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable devices face challenges due to limited battery capacity and difficulty in designing antennas, leading to short standby times and inefficient network resource usage when accessing networks, often requiring relay through intelligent terminals which wastes resources.
Innovation Solution
A method where user equipment sends specific messages to allocate transmission resources efficiently, allowing only necessary wearable devices to access the network, reducing unnecessary resource allocation and consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If wearable device directly communicates with base station, then network access capability is improved, but battery consumption increases and standby time decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intelligent terminal as an intermediary between the wearable device and the network. The wearable device communicates through the intelligent terminal which handles network access, allowing the wearable device to maintain network connectivity while consuming minimal battery power since the intelligent terminal performs the energy-intensive communication operations
2Reliability
If intelligent terminal acts as relay for multiple wearable devices, then network access for wearable devices is enabled, but network resources are wasted due to context setup for all matched devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having the intelligent terminal send a notification message to the network side in advance, indicating which specific wearable device needs to access the network. This allows the network side to prepare and setup contexts only for the required wearable device before actual data transmission, rather than setting up contexts for all potentially matched devices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses feedback mechanism where the intelligent terminal provides information to the network side about which wearable device needs network access. The notification message contains identifiers that enable the network side to identify and prepare resources for the specific wearable device, creating a feedback loop that optimizes resource allocation
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AI summary
A method for accessing a network by UE, a network device, and first UE are disclosed. The first UE sends a first message, where the first message includes a message that second UE accesses a network by being associated with the first UE; and after an access response sent by the network device is received, the first UE and the second UE associated with the first UE access the network. After receiving the first message, the network device sends an access response to the first UE, to specifically allocate a transmission resource to a wearable device that needs to transmit data, so as to save network resources.