Wireless Communication Survival Time for Relaxed URLLC QoS

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Solution Overview

Problem

The stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements in ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) pose challenges, and there is a need to relax certain reliability requirements to improve spectral efficiency and resource allocation in wireless communication systems.

Innovation Solution

The introduction of a survival time parameter that allows applications to continue functioning without anticipated messages for a specified period, enabling techniques such as resource allocation adjustments, connection reconfiguration, and packet duplication based on this parameter to maintain QoS within relaxed reliability bounds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If stringent QoS requirements are maintained in URLLC, then reliability is improved, but spectral efficiency and resource allocation deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveQoS reliabilityVSAvoidspectral efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a survival time parameter that changes the QoS requirements from strict reliability bounds to relaxed bounds characterized by survival time. This parameter change allows the system to accept packet losses within certain time windows, thereby improving spectral efficiency while maintaining acceptable service quality through dynamic adaptation rather than rigid requirement enforcement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If reliability requirements are relaxed, then spectral efficiency is improved, but QoS service quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespectral efficiencyVSAvoidQoS service quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic adaptation mechanisms where the survival time parameter is continuously monitored and used to trigger reconfiguration events. The system dynamically adjusts resource allocation and connection parameters based on actual survival time performance, allowing the service quality to adapt to relaxed reliability requirements while maintaining acceptable performance through real-time optimization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If survival time parameter is introduced, then resource allocation is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource allocation efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a survival time monitoring mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the QoS requirements and resource allocation decisions. This intermediary component tracks packet loss patterns and triggers appropriate resource adjustments, simplifying the overall system architecture by providing a clear, measurable parameter that mediates between service quality requirements and spectral efficiency goals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP4070582B1Survival time for quality of service requirement relaxation
Publication Date: 2025.07.30 ZTE CORP
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AI summary

Methods, apparatus, and systems that use the survival time parameter to relax Quality of Service (QoS) reliability requirements in communication services are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes triggering, by a wireless device, a report to a radio access node due to occurrence of a condition of a survival time associated with a communication service. The survival time represents an amount of time an application consuming the communication service is capable of continuing without receiving any anticipated message. The survival time can indicate a number of consecutive incorrectly received or lost packets.