Wireless Bandwidth Aggregation for WWAN Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
In wireless wide-area networks (WWAN), individual bandwidths are often underutilized, leading to wasted capacity, especially when users are in close proximity, as they cannot share unused bandwidth with others.
Innovation Solution
The Wireless Aggregation for Mobility (WAM) system allows users to form a community that aggregates and shares their bandwidth, enabling each member to utilize their own allocated bandwidth plus unused bandwidth from others, creating a dynamic and expandable high-speed data access network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If users operate with individual bandwidth allocations in WWAN, then each user has dedicated bandwidth availability, but the unused bandwidth capacity is wasted and cannot be shared with other users in proximity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual WWAN bandwidth allocations into a shared pool that can be dynamically accessed by multiple users. Users in proximity merge their bandwidth resources through the WAM system, allowing unused bandwidth from one user to be utilized by another, thereby reducing overall bandwidth waste and improving utilization efficiency without requiring complex infrastructure changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The WAM system creates a universal bandwidth sharing mechanism that works across multiple users and devices simultaneously. The same bandwidth pool serves multiple functions: providing dedicated bandwidth when needed, sharing excess capacity, and dynamically adjusting allocations based on user demand, thereby eliminating the need for separate solutions for different bandwidth scenarios.
2Productivity
If users in close proximity could share bandwidth, then bandwidth utilization efficiency would improve, but network management and coordination complexity would increase
Solution Approach 1:
The WAM system enables users to automatically join and leave bandwidth pools without manual intervention. The system self-manages bandwidth allocation, tracking which users have excess capacity and automatically routing traffic to appropriate participants. This automated self-service approach improves bandwidth utilization while minimizing the management burden on users and network operators.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors bandwidth usage patterns of participating users and dynamically adjusts allocations based on real-time feedback. When a user's bandwidth需求 changes, the system detects this through feedback mechanisms and automatically rebalances the shared pool, ensuring optimal utilization without requiring complex manual management or centralized control.
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for dynamic bandwidth expansion for wireless clients of a wireless wide-area network (WWAN), wherein each client has an allocated bandwidth for communicating over the WWAN and the clients are within wireless signal reception of each other. The WWAN clients may voluntarily or in a predetermined manner join a pool of bandwidth-sharing clients. A wireless aggregation server and a wireless pool boss work in cooperation to utilize unused transmit and receive bandwidth from each of the pool members.