Wireless Traffic Prioritization for User-Defined QoE
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network technologies lack the ability to provide a satisfactory quality of experience (QoE) for diverse network users due to insufficient user-specific traffic prioritization, particularly with the rise of IoT devices and varying applications like gaming, AR, VR, and streaming, which fail to address individual user needs and preferences.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to customize traffic prioritization through a wireless device interface, enabling users to tag applications, services, or devices as highest priority based on usage, location, and time, overriding default prioritization schemes to ensure a user-defined QoE.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If network administrators implement default prioritization schemes for traffic management, then network performance for specific applications is improved, but user customization capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between default prioritization schemes and customized prioritization schemes based on user input. The network interface allows users to override default settings in real-time, enabling the system to adapt traffic prioritization dynamically according to specific user needs while maintaining overall network performance
Solution Approach 2:
The prioritization scheme is segmented into multiple layers: default prioritization rules that apply network-wide, and user-specific customization options that can override defaults for individual devices or applications. This segmentation allows both standardized performance management and personalized user control to coexist
2Reliability
If network administrators prioritize high-demand activities like gaming and video, then quality of experience for these applications is improved, but performance of traditional web browsing deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different prioritization levels to different applications and devices based on user-specific needs. Instead of a uniform prioritization scheme, each user can configure local quality parameters for specific applications (gaming, video, web browsing) according to their preferences, allowing high-demand activities to receive priority when needed while maintaining adequate performance for other applications
3Device complexity
If a single default prioritization scheme is applied to all devices, then device complexity is reduced, but ability to meet diverse user needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The network interface is designed with universal functionality that serves multiple purposes: it provides default prioritization schemes for all devices (maintaining simplicity) while simultaneously enabling user-specific customization options (enabling adaptability). The same interface handles both standardized network-wide policies and individual user preferences without requiring separate systems
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AI summary
Methods and systems provided herein allow user prioritization of applications, services, and devices in order to enhance user quality of experience (QoE). A wireless device user exercises one or more customization options allowing manipulation of a default prioritization scheme. A customized prioritization scheme for the wireless device user is configured based on the manipulation.