Wireless Network Management via Real-Time Mapping and HMA Beam Steering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Higher generation wireless communication networks face challenges in maintaining accurate directivity of beam formed wireless signals due to changes in physical locations or orientation of service nodes and repeater devices, and in selecting the correct service node amidst spectrally adjacent frequency bands, which affects communication efficiency and carrier authorization.
Innovation Solution
Employing holographic metasurface antennas (HMAs) and real-time mapping to dynamically direct beam waveforms, using separate communication channels and on-board components like GPS and sensors to determine position and orientation data, and employing trilateration techniques for RF repeater devices to construct a global map and update network connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If beam formed wireless signals are used to provide higher bandwidth and lower latency, then communication performance is improved, but accurate directivity maintenance becomes difficult when physical locations or orientation of service nodes change
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes a global map containing pose information and physical location data for all service nodes before communication occurs. This preliminary mapping allows the network management application to predict and prepare beam directing paths in advance, ensuring accurate directivity is maintained even when service nodes move or change orientation during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the physical locations and orientations of repeater devices and service nodes, feeding this information back to the network management application. This feedback loop enables real-time updates to beam forming directions, ensuring that the system adapts to changes in node positions and maintains accurate directivity for optimal communication performance.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple service nodes are visible simultaneously in spectrally adjacent frequency bands, then signal coverage is improved, but selecting the correct authorized service node becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a network management application as an intermediary that receives and processes information from multiple visible service nodes. This intermediary application uses the pre-established global map to identify which service node is authorized to communicate with specific user devices, filtering out unauthorized nodes even when multiple nodes are simultaneously visible in spectrally adjacent frequency bands.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter used for service node selection from simple power measurement to a composite parameter that includes physical location data, pose information, and carrier authorization status from the global map. This parameter transformation enables accurate identification of the correct authorized service node among multiple visible nodes by matching observed nodes against the pre-stored map data.
3Area of stationary object
If repeater devices are deployed to extend network coverage, then service area is improved, but maintaining accurate beam directivity without insight into data channel contents becomes problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The network management application serves as an intermediary that centralizes the complex task of beam directivity control. Instead of requiring each repeater device to independently analyze data channel contents and make beam forming decisions, the network management application receives location and orientation data from repeaters, determines the correct beam directions using the global map, and sends control instructions back to the repeaters, simplifying their operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces the need for complex local decision-making mechanisms at repeater devices with a centralized information system (global map). Rather than requiring repeaters to mechanically or algorithmically analyze data channel contents to determine beam directions, the system substitutes this with a pre-established digital map that provides all necessary positioning and orientation information, reducing device complexity.
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AI summary
An apparatus for providing wireless communication between an RF communication device and remotely located RF base station devices or RF repeater devices to establish a wireless connection with a wireless carrier authorized to communicate with one or more wireless user devices (UEs) in communication with the RF communication device. The RF communication devices may employ separate wireless communication channels to communicate with one or more remote RF base station devices, remote RF repeater devices, remote network management applications, and local UEs. An RF communication device may employ a map to select a currently available RF base station device or an RF repeater device to establish a wireless connection between an authorized wireless carrier and the one or more local UEs in communication with the RF communication device.