Wireless Cell Mapping for Accurate Identification and Load Balancing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing software programs struggle to accurately identify and manage wireless cells due to the use of non-unique identifiers, leading to inefficiencies in decoding encoded information and load balancing across software containers in radio access networks.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a mapping system that assigns unique identifiers to wireless cells and utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate communication and load balancing among software containers, enabling them to scale resources based on utilization information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If non-unique identifiers are used for wireless cells, then device complexity is reduced, but measurement precision and reliability of cell identification deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveidentifier management complexityVSAvoidcell identification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a mapping data structure as an intermediary between the simplified non-unique identifiers and the actual unique cell identifiers. This mapping table stored in memory resolves the ambiguity by providing a reference that translates ambiguous identifiers into unique ones, allowing the system to maintain simple identifier management while achieving accurate cell identification through the intermediary mapping mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If software containers are deployed to handle wireless cell traffic, then scalability and resource management improve, but device complexity and communication overhead increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork scalabilityVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the wireless cell traffic handling functionality into separate software containers, each responsible for specific cells or groups of cells. This segmentation enables independent deployment, scaling, and management of container instances, improving network scalability while the standardized container interfaces manage the added architectural complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal software container framework that can handle multiple wireless cells through standardized APIs and mapping mechanisms. This multi-functional container design allows a single container type to serve multiple cells by utilizing the mapping data structure, thereby achieving scalability without proportionally increasing complexity through functional specialization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If multiple software containers handle different wireless cells, then load balancing capability improves, but measurement precision for resource allocation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveload distribution efficiencyVSAvoidresource utilization monitoring accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where software containers report their resource utilization status back to the management system. This feedback loop enables the system to monitor actual resource consumption by containers handling different wireless cells, providing precise measurement data that feeds into load balancing decisions and resource allocation optimizations, thereby maintaining both productivity and measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250392955A1Wireless cell identification

Publication Date: 2025.12.25 NVIDIA CORP

AI summary

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to identify wireless cells. In at least one embodiment, encoded information from a first wireless cell identified by a first wireless cell identifier are decoded based, at least in part, on a second wireless cell identifier corresponding to the first wireless cell.