Wireless Router Selection for Signaling Overhead Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of communication resource requests from wireless devices to an access node leads to excessive signaling overhead, degrading communication link quality and reducing the quality of service provided by the access node.
Innovation Solution
Selecting one of the wireless devices to operate as a router based on its power storage level and assigned modulation and coding scheme, allowing it to aggregate communication resource requests and relay data for other devices, thereby reducing the number of requests received by the access node.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If each wireless device sends communication resource requests directly to the access node, then each device can independently request resources, but the signaling overhead increases excessively
Solution Approach 1:
A router wireless device is selected from the plurality of wireless devices to act as an intermediary. This router device receives communication resource requests from other wireless devices and forwards them to the access node, thereby reducing the direct signaling overhead between individual devices and the access node while maintaining the ability for all devices to request resources independently.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple communication resource requests from different wireless devices are merged and transmitted through a single router wireless device to the access node. This consolidation reduces the total number of separate signaling messages, decreasing overhead while preserving the independent resource request capability of each device through the aggregated routing mechanism.
2Reliability
If multiple wireless devices communicate directly with the access node, then communication reliability is maintained, but the load on the access node increases
Solution Approach 1:
The router wireless device serves as a mediator that handles the aggregation and forwarding of communication requests. This reduces the processing load on the access node by consolidating multiple device requests into fewer transmissions, while the router device maintains communication reliability by ensuring proper routing of requests from all wireless devices to the access node.
3Quantity of substance
If a router wireless device is selected based on power storage level and modulation and coding scheme, then signaling overhead is reduced, but the selection complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The router wireless device is selected by evaluating specific parameters including power storage level and assigned modulation and coding scheme. These parameter-based selection criteria enable the system to choose an appropriate router device that can handle the aggregated traffic effectively, reducing signaling overhead while using objective, measurable characteristics for the selection process.
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AI summary
In systems and methods of reducing wireless communication signaling overhead, it is determined that communication resource request traffic from a plurality of wireless devices in communication with an access node to communicate with a communication network meets a first threshold. One of the plurality of wireless devices is selected to operate as a router wireless device based on a power storage level and an assigned modulation and coding scheme of each of the plurality of wireless devices. At least one of the unselected wireless devices is instructed to communicate with the communication network via the selected router wireless device.