Wireless Communication Control System for Dynamic Quality Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

The quality of wireless communication is unstable due to environmental influences and varies with the user's purpose, necessitating a technology for dynamic control of wireless communication quality.

Innovation Solution

A communication control system that acquires information about wireless devices and environments, predicts future communication quality, and controls parameters to meet user-specific needs, including an acquisition unit, prediction unit, control unit, interface unit, and cooperation unit for network-connected systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If wireless communication quality is controlled dynamically to match user's purpose, then communication quality adapts to user needs, but system complexity increases due to multiple control functions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication quality adaptationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the communication control function into distinct modules: an acquisition unit for gathering communication state information, a prediction unit for forecasting future quality, and a control unit for executing quality adjustments. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific tasks independently, improving adaptability while managing system complexity through functional decomposition.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The prediction unit performs preliminary action by forecasting future wireless communication quality before actual degradation occurs. This advance prediction enables the control unit to proactively adjust communication parameters in anticipation of quality changes, ensuring optimal user experience without waiting for problems to manifest.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If communication quality is continuously monitored and adjusted, then user experience improves, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication quality stabilityVSAvoidenergy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The acquisition unit monitors communication state information periodically rather than continuously, collecting data at intervals sufficient to detect quality trends while minimizing unnecessary energy consumption. This periodic monitoring maintains communication quality stability by capturing essential changes without the continuous energy expenditure of constant monitoring.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback control where the control unit adjusts communication parameters based on predicted quality and actual user experience outcomes. This feedback mechanism ensures energy is spent only when adjustments are necessary to maintain quality, avoiding wasteful continuous adjustments while preserving reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Manufacturing precision

If multiple control functions are executed in combination, then communication quality optimization improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality control precisionVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The prediction unit performs quality forecasting in advance, preparing control decisions before actual quality degradation occurs. This preliminary action allows the control unit to execute adjustments with greater precision while minimizing processing time, as the decision-making framework is already established through prior prediction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the execution of control functions based on current communication conditions and user needs. When quality issues are detected, multiple control functions are executed in combination with optimized timing; when conditions are stable, fewer functions are activated, reducing processing time while maintaining quality control precision when necessary.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240187896A1Communication control system, communication control method and program
Publication Date: 2024.06.06 NT T INC
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AI summary

A communication control system includes a computer including a memory and a processor configured to acquire information regarding a wireless communication device and environment information that affects wireless communication quality; predict future wireless communication quality based on the information regarding the wireless communication device and the environment information; control, based on the future wireless communication quality, a target device to achieve wireless communication quality depending on a user's purpose, the user using wireless communication; receive a request from another system connected via a network; and execute at least one or more of acquisition of the information and the environment information, prediction of the future wireless communication quality, or control of the target device in combination in response to the request.