Patent Application
20160345377
This application relates to a method, a server, a radio frequency communication device, and a computer-readable storage medium for increased reliability, and in particular to a method, a server, a radio frequency communication device and a computer-readable storage medium for increased reliability of transmissions in dual SIM devices.
A mobile radio frequency communication device is by definition mobile and as such it will have to connect to different base stations as it is moved. As the Mobile RF communications device moves, it will switch from one cell to another, each cell served by a base station (possibly the same but at different frequencies) and a handover from one cell to the other is effected.
A hard handover is a handover where the connection is (temporarily) broken and often a reconnect is necessary for any application that was using the connection.
A soft handover is a seamless handover where the application is not affected. However, even if the application is not affected the physical layer and the radio frequency interface will be affected and need to reconnect to the new cell. This is most of the time done in such a short time that most applications do not suffer. In LTE for instance, once a handover (HO) have been triggered by the modem of the radio frequency interface (i.e. a neighboring cell has become sufficiently strong compared to the current serving cell, the device report that to the network (NW) node i.e. a “HO event”), and the NW node transmits a HO execute RRC message (meaning do HO to a target cell) to the modem, the device starts to sync to the target cell. Once the device is in-sync, the modem makes a random access and the connection to the new cell is initiated. Once a HO message complete message is transmitted from the modem to the NW node the UL/DL (Uplink/Downlink) data communication can start again. Hence, during this sync and initialization period, that may be between 10-1000 ms depending on HO type (IRAT takes longer than LTE intra frequency HO for instance), the modem is offline w.r.t. the NW node and no (application) data communication in UL and DL is possible.
High reliability and low latency (<20 ms) communication might be a hard to handle with current cellular communication systems (GSM/WCDMA/LTE) using simple (low power/low cost) modems in case the application utilizes mobility. As mentioned above, once a HO is initiated, an interrupt of 10-1000 ms in the UL/DL connection is made. For time critical applications such an interrupt may be problematic since the device needs to go into some fail safe mode at each HO. Furthermore, even if the reliability of HO in LTE is rather good, there is anyway a 1-2% risk for HO failure, and then a need for RRC re-establishment procedure to get the (IP) connection on again, giving even longer interrupts (seconds). Such a risk and such delays are far too high for critical applications such as for example remote surgery, which would enable complicated surgery to be done in remote or exposed areas. Other examples are various tactile applications, industrial automation, vehicular control and military applications.
Hence, there is a need for a method and a mobile RF communication device for increasing the reliability in high reliability, real time, low latency applications using cellular communications such as LTE.
The problem, that the inventors have realized after inventive and insightful reasoning and that the present invention aims to solve, arises because there is no redundancy in the connections.
The prior art proposes to utilize dual SIM devices to introduce a redundancy for applications where a low-level communication Radio Access Technology (RAT), such as GSM (Global System Mobile), serves as a backup for a high-level RAT, such as LTE (Long Term Evolution). However, such systems suffer in that the low-level RAT can not handle the traffic generated by the High-level RAT.
The prior art also includes dual SIM devices aimed at different operators both serving the same level of RAT. Such systems are however designed to separate the traffic on the two SIM cards to differentiate between for example private and business traffic and are as such incompatible with any redundancy system as a redundancy system can not be separated.
It is an object of the teachings of this application to overcome or at least mitigate the problems listed above by providing a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, said radio frequency communications interface comprising at least a first RF modem connected to a first SIM module configured for receiving a first SIM card associated with a first operator and a first RF modem connected to a second SIM module configured for receiving a second SIM card associated with a second operator, wherein said mobile RF communication device is configured for dual SM operation and wherein said controller is configured to: execute an application; assemble a data stream to be transmitted from the application; duplicate the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream; transmit the first data stream over the first RF modem through the first operator to a receiving device; and transmit the second data stream over the second RF modem through the first operator to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
It is also an object of the teachings of this application to overcome or at least mitigate the problems listed above by providing a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, said radio frequency communications interface comprising at least a first RF modem connected to a first SIM module configured for receiving a first SIM card associated with a first operator and a first RF modem connected to a second SIM module configured for receiving a second SIM card associated with a second operator, wherein said mobile RF communication device is configured for dual SIM operation and wherein said controller is configured to: execute an application; determine a transmission priority for the application; and determine a transmission strategy based on the transmission priority, wherein the transmission strategy is at least one of the following: to use a single SIM-carrier aggregation connection, to use a single SIM-single carrier connection, and to use a dual SIM-single carrier connection; and, when the transmission strategy is to use a dual SIM-single carrier connection then: assemble a data stream to be transmitted from the application; duplicate the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream; transmit the first data stream over the first RF modem through the first operator to a receiving device; and transmit the second data stream over the second RF modem through the first operator to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
It is also an object of the teachings of this application to overcome or at least mitigate the problems listed above by providing a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, wherein said controller is configured to: execute an application; assemble a data stream to be transmitted from the application; duplicate the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream; transmit the first data stream through a first address to a receiving device; and transmit the second data stream through a second address to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
In one embodiment the mobile radio frequency communication device is a mobile communications terminal.
It is also an object of the teachings of this application to overcome or at least mitigate the problems listed above by providing a receiving device arranged for receiving a first data stream having been transmitted through a first operator and a second data stream having been transmitted through a second operator originating from an application, said receiving device comprising a controller configured to: receive at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream and combine the at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream into a received data stream to be used by a corresponding application.
In one embodiment the receiving device is a mobile communications terminal.
It is a further object of the teachings of this application to overcome the problems listed above by providing a method for use in a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, said radio frequency communications interface comprising at least a first RF modem connected to a first SIM module configured for receiving a first SIM card associated with a first operator and a first RF modem connected to a second SIM module configured for receiving a second SIM card associated with a second operator, wherein said mobile RF communication device is configured for dual SIM operation and wherein the method comprises: executing an application; assembling a data stream to be transmitted from the application; duplicating the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream; transmitting the first data stream over the first RF modem through the first operator to a receiving device; and transmitting the second data stream over the second RF modem through the first operator to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
It is a further object of the teachings of this application to overcome the problems listed above by providing a method for use in a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, said radio frequency communications interface comprising at least a first RF modem connected to a first SIM module configured for receiving a first SIM card associated with a first operator and a first RF modem connected to a second SIM module configured for receiving a second SIM card associated with a second operator, wherein said mobile RF communication device is configured for dual SIM operation and wherein the method comprises executing an application; determining a transmission priority for the application; and determining a transmission strategy based on the transmission priority, wherein the transmission strategy is at least one of the following: to use a single SIM-carrier aggregation connection, to use a single SIM-single carrier connection, and to use a dual SIM-single carrier connection; and, when the transmission strategy is to use a dual SIM-single carrier connection then: assembling a data stream to be transmitted from the application, duplicating the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream; transmitting the first data stream over the first RF modem through the first operator to a receiving device; and transmitting the second data stream over the second RF modem through the first operator to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
It is a further object of the teachings of this application to overcome the problems listed above by providing a method for use in a mobile RF communication device comprising a radio frequency communications interface and a controller, wherein the method comprises executing an application; assembling a data stream to be transmitted from the application; duplicating the data stream into a first data stream and a second data stream transmitting the first data stream through a first address to a receiving device, and transmitting the second data stream through a second address to the receiving device, whereby a redundant transmission of the data stream is achieved.
It is a further object of the teachings of this application to overcome the problems listed above by providing a method for use in a receiving device arranged for receiving a first data stream having been transmitted through a first operator and a second data stream having been transmitted through a second operator originating from an application, said method comprising: receiving at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream and combining the at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream into a received data stream to be used by a corresponding application.
It is a further object of the teachings of this application to overcome the problems listed above by providing a computer readable medium comprising instructions that when loaded into and executed by a controller, such as a processor, cause the execution of a method according to herein.
The inventors of the present application have realized, after inventive and insightful reasoning that by utilizing the dual SIM functionality and going against the contemporary use of sending differentiated and separated data over the two channels, redundancy may be achieved for a more reliable transmission of time critical data.
Other features and advantages of the disclosed embodiments will appear from the attached detailed disclosure.
The invention will be described in further detail under reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
The disclosed embodiments will now be described more fully hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which certain embodiments of the invention are shown. This invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided by way of example so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Like numbers refer to like elements throughout.
The Mobile RF communications device 100 is arranged to execute a time critical application, which may be stored in the memory 140.
The mobile RF communication device 100 further comprises a radio frequency (RF) communication interface 130 which is configured to communicate according to one or a combination of the standards Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), High Speed Packet Access, HSPA, or Global System for Mobile communication, GSM or any future fifth generation cellular communication standard. It should be noted that the teachings herein might also be implemented using other cellular communications standards.
The RF interface comprises two (or more) RF modems, a first RF modem and a second RF modem 131, 132. In one embodiment the first and the second RF modems 131, 132 may be logical modems being implemented as logical parts of the same physical RF transmitter.
Each RF modem 131, 132 is operably connected to a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) module. The first RF modem 131 being connected to a first SIM module 133 and the second RF modem 132 being connected to a second SIM module 134. The SIM modules 133, 134 are configured to read and write data from and to a SIM card. The SIM modules 133, 134 may not have a direct connection with the RF modems 131,132, but the connection may be over a common data bus (not shown explicitly) and/or the controller 110. Each SIM card is associated with a cellular service subscription and in one embodiment the first SIM card is associated with a first operator and the second SIM card is associated with a second operator. In one embodiment, the first SIM card is associated with a 2G, 3G or 4G subscription and the second SIM card is associated with a 2G, 3G or 4G subscription. The function of a SIM module is known to a skilled person and will not be disclosed in further details.
The mobile RF communication device 100 is thus arranged to operate with dual SIM cards. Dual SIM card operation may be effected as both cards being, or rather the subscriptions corresponding to the SIM cards, active at the same time (both capable of transmitting simultaneously, that is having active connections to respective network nodes or base stations simultaneously) or as both cards being in standby at the same time, but as one card is active in communication, the other card may not be active. This is commonly referred to as DSDA (Dual SIM Dual Active) The RF interface 130 may be employed in different manners including: single SIM-single carrier where one SIM module is used for communication over one carrier; single SIM-dual carrier, where one SIM module is used for communication over two carriers, possibly through a time division protocol; and dual SIM-dual carrier, where two SIM modules are communicating over each a carrier. Combinations are also possible, for example single SIM-dual carrier on both SIM modules.
The RF interface 130 may also be configured to communicate according to one or a combination of at least one of the standards IEEE 802.11 (WiFi), Bluetooth®, NFC (Near Field Communication) or other short range (radio frequency) communication interface, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and ZigBee.
The controller 110 is operatively connected to the RF communication interface 130 for communicating with other mobile RF communication devices as will be disclosed below with reference to
The receiving device 200 comprises a controller 210 and a memory 240. The controller 210 may be implemented as one or several processors or other logic circuits, such as programmable logic circuits. The memory 240 may be implemented using any commonly known technology for computer-readable memories such as ROM, RAM, SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, DDR, EEPROM memory, flash memory, hard drive, optical storage or any combination thereof. The memory 240 is used for various purposes by the controller 210, such as for storing program instructions and application data.
The receiving device 200 may further comprise or be connected to a radio frequency (RF) communication interface 230 which is configured to communicate according to one or a combination of the standards Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), High Speed Packet Access, HSPA, or Global System for Mobile communication, GSM. It should be noted that the teachings herein may also be implemented using other cellular communications standards. The receiving device 200 may be connected to the RF interface 230 remotely through a series of network connections, such as through the internet, see for example
The controller 210 is operatively connected to the RF communication interface 230 for communicating with mobile RF communication devices as will be disclosed below with reference to
The communication network 300 further comprises a second base station 320, which is arranged to communicate with the mobile RF communication device 100 according to the subscription of the second SIM card SIM 2 as indicated by the dashed arrow. In one embodiment the second SIM card is associated with a second operator B which operates the second base station 320 (as indicated by the abbreviation BS B in
The instructions 41 may also be downloaded to a computer data reading device 44, such as a computer or other device capable of reading computer coded data on a computer-readable medium, by comprising the instructions 41 in a computer-readable signal 43 which is transmitted via a wireless (or wired) interface (for example via the Internet) to the computer data reading device 44 for loading the instructions 41 into a controller. In such an embodiment the computer-readable signal 43 is one type of a computer-readable medium 40.
The instructions may be stored in a memory (not shown explicitly in
References to computer programs, instructions, code etc. should be understood to encompass software for a programmable processor or firmware such as, for example, the programmable content of a hardware device whether instructions for a processor, or configuration settings for a fixed-function device, gate array or programmable logic device etc.
A Mobile RF communications device, such as a UE 100 according to
To provide for redundancy for a time critical application, the Mobile RF communications device 100, or the application being executed by the controller 110 of the Mobile RF communications device 100, transmits two separate data streams D1 and D. The first data stream D1 is transmitted via the first operator A and the second data stream D2 is transmitted via the second operator B. In one embodiment, the first and second data streams are substantially the same in that they carry the same data, which is the data stream D for the time critical application. The data streams D1, D2 are transmitted or connected to an application device 200, which may be another Mobile RF communications device 100, a remote computer or other computing device capable of executing a counter part of the time critical application.
Let us now consider information that is transmitted from the UE to the application device 200. Starting with
Should the Mobile RF communications device 100 lose a connection with one operator, such as dining a handover, the server will still receive the data stream D in the form of either the first data stream D1 or the second data stream D2.
The receiving device 200 receives both the first data stream D1 and the second data stream D2 during operation when the Mobile RF communications device 100 is connected to both the first base station 310 and the second base station 320. The receiving device 200 then extracts data from either of the two received data streams in order to generate an estimate Dr(k), which ideally should correspond to the transmitted sequence D(k).
It does not matter whether D1 or D2 is used to obtain Dr as they convey the same information. In fact, in one embodiment, a combination of the first data stream D1 and the second data stream D2 may be used to obtain the received the received data stream Dr. The received data stream Dr may then be obtained by combining the data packages received in the first and second data stream which are received at a high(est) signal quality). Due to independent and stochastic networking delays for individual datagrams belonging to D1 and D2, there is no guarantee that corresponding parts of D1 and D2 arrive at the same time to the receiving application device 200, even if the streams are transmitted virtually at the same time. Moreover, if there is a handover (HO) outage on one of the SIM channels, the corresponding data stream may temporarily be severely delayed already at the transmitting UE compared to the data stream that is sent over the SIM channel without HO outage. This will cause a substantial difference in arrival time at the receiving device 200 for the affected parts of D1 and D2.
In order to handle differences in arrival time of the data streams, the transmitting and receiving end has to agree on a protocol that makes it possible for the receiving application device 200 to bookkeep what parts of the data streams D1 and D2 it has already used in the process of deriving Dr. One way to accomplish this is by dividing the data sequence into segments of appropriate size. The receiving device 200 marks a segment as used as soon as it has deducted the corresponding segment of Dr. Should it receive the same segment again at a later time on the other data stream, it can safely disregard this, as the corresponding data is already part of Dr.
As is normal when transmitting data, the data to be transmitted is often encoded.
The data stream to be transmitted D is thus encoded and transmitted by each modem 131, 132 as two separate data streams D1 and D2.
To allow for a higher redundancy and enabling the receiving device 200 to recreate a data stream should a portion of it be missing or received at low quality, the inventors have devised a clever manner of providing the increased redundancy by transmitting parity bits for encoding one data stream along with the other data stream. As can be seen in
D1=D′+P2, and
D2=D″+P1.
It should be noted that in another embodiment of the invention the parity bits may also be transmitted along with the corresponding encoded data stream, i.e. D1=f1(D′)=D′+P1 and D2=f2(D″)=D″+P2.
The device 200 receiving the two data streams D1r and D2r then generates an estimate, Dr, of the transmitted data stream, D, by reversing the encoding procedure.
The device 200 extracts D′r, D″r, P1r, and P2r from the received sequences D1r and D2r. Then, combining D′r with P1r, and, D″r with P2r, each of these two sequences is decoded. Finally, Dr is generated from merging the decoded sequences using the reverse of the split function S. Denoting the two decoders by f1−1 and f2−1, respectively, and the merging function by S−1, the decoding operation can be expressed as a formula:
Dr=S
−1(f1−1(D′r,P1r),f2−1(D″r,P2r)).
It should be noted that even though the focus of this description is to transmitting a data stream, the same teaching naturally applies to receiving a data stream. The Mobile RF communications device 100 is thus enabled to provide communication redundancy by communicating the same data stream D in two separate data streams D1, D2.
There exist an infinite number of schemes of varying complexity that can utilize the two available SIM channels by trading overall bit rate for robustness to handover (HO) outage. In general, the encoders f, f1 and f2 will add parity bits to the data that they encode. This will increase the length of the transmitted sequence compared to the length of the information sequence that enters the encoders, and, consequently, decrease the available user data rate. However, the parity bits can be used to recreate missing parts of either SIM channel that follows from an HO outage on that channel. In one embodiment of this invention, the parity bits of the encoder in f1 are transmitted over channel SIM2, while the parity bits of the encoder in f2 are transmitted over channel SIM1. When there is an HO outage over one of the two SIM channels, the receiver can use the parity bits received before, during and possibly after the outage at the other channel to recreate parts of or all of the lost information in the afflicted stream. By opting for different encoders (thereby changing the amount of parity data in the streams), it is possible to tune the overall communication link and trade user data rate for robustness to outage.
The example embodiments of
In one embodiment the data stream to be transmitted is copied into the two data streams D1 and D2 on an application layer of a computer hierarchy, such as an OSI model used by the Mobile RF communications device 100. The received data streams may also be combined at an application level of computer hierarchy used by the receiving device 200.
By implementing the copying and combining at an application level, it is easy to execute the application in a Mobile RF communications device 100 as no changes to the underlying system or layers are needed. The application arranged according to the teachings herein may simply be installed and executed. The application will also become less dependent on the current architecture being used by the Mobile RF communications device 100.
The Mobile RF communications device 100 assembles the data stream to be transmitted D from a time critical application and copies 810 it into a first and a second data stream D1 and D2 respectively. It should be noted that either of the first and second data stream may be the data stream to be transmitted, where D and D1 are transmitted or D1 and D2 are transmitted. The first data stream D1 is encoded 820 and transmitted 830 over the first modem 131 through the first operator A to the receiving device 200. The second data stream D2 is also encoded 820 and transmitted 835 over the second modem 132 through the second operator B to the receiving device 200 (substantially) simultaneously. The first data stream D1 may be transmitted along with a parity P2 for the second data stream D2835 and the second data stream D2 may be transmitted along with a parity P1 for the first data stream D1. The parities may be transmitted as part of the data streams, concatenated to the data streams or using the same channel as the data streams.
The receiving device 200 receives the first data stream D1 and possibly also receives the second data stream D2, wherein the receiving device 200 has received 910 at least one data stream D1 and/or D2. At least one parity P1, P2 for the at least one data stream D1 and/or D2 is also received through the other operator as the corresponding data stream was received through, that is a parity for the first data stream is received through the second operator and a parity for the second data stream is received through the first operator. The at least one data stream D1 and/or D2 is then decoded 920. The at least one data stream D1 and/or D2 may be decoded using a parity that is received with the other of the at least one data stream D1 and/or D2, that is, the first data stream D1 may be decoded 922 using the parity P1 received through the second operator B and data stream D2 may be decoded 924 using the parity P2 received through the first operator A. The decoded data streams are then combined 930 into a received data stream Dr to be used 940 for a corresponding time critical application.
As would be understood, the teachings above trade a high reliability for a lower through put, which is necessary to incorporate the redundancy in the system.
In one embodiment the Mobile RF communications device 100 is thus configured to start duplicating the data stream to be transmitted only when it is detected that the signal quality of the used operator is deteriorating or when a hand over is to be effected. In this manner, the throughput can be maintained at a high level when the redundancy is not needed and the redundancy of using both modems is used when a high reliability is needed. The Mobile RF communications device 100 is thus configured to determine that a signal quality of a connection used is deteriorating or that a handover is to be effected and in response thereto start duplicating the data stream to be sent according to above.
Furthermore, to save power The Mobile RF communications device 100 is configured in one embodiment to use only one of the modems 131, 132 in a time-division manner to maintain connectivity towards the first operator A and monitor paging in the second operator network B. Here autonomous gaps would be created if needed in the active connection. The Mobile RF communications device 100 is thus configured to perform paging for the second operator B using the first modem 131, while transmitting data streams through the first operator (A) through the first modem (131).
According to the teachings herein, the Mobile RF communications device 100 may also be configured to duplicate the data stream to be transmitted and transmit the first and second data streams to different SIMs or other addresses at the receiving device 200, possibly through one modem. In this manner, the duplication can also be performed by a single SIM Mobile RF communications device or a Dual SIM Mobile RF communications device 100 operating in single SIM mode. In such an embodiment the receiving device is arranged with a radio interface having two RF modems, as the Mobile RF communications device 100 of
This enables for a high reliability at a receiving device, such as a Mobile RF communications device 100.
However, not all applications are so time critical and the normal delay for a soft handover is sufficient and to allow for an increased robustness while still taking advantage of the available bandwidth, the inventors have devised a clever manner of adapting the transmission strategy of a Mobile RF communications device 100 based on the application to be executed.
The Mobile RF communications device 100 then determines 1030 the transmission strategy to be used based on the transmission priority.
If the transmission priority relates to high performance 1033, use or establish a single SIM-multiple carrier connection or carrier aggregation. If the transmission priority relates to low power consumption 1036, use or establish a single SIM-single carrier connection. If the transmission priority relates to high reliability 1039, use or establish a dual SIM-single carrier connection.
The Mobile RF communications device 100 then monitors the execution of the time critical application and determines if the transmission strategy needs to be changed 1040 and if so adapts the transmission strategy, possibly by determining a new transmission strategy 1030.
If the Mobile RF communications device 100 is executing more than one application concurrently, the Mobile RF communications device 100 may be configured to determine 1031 a highest priority of the applications and base the determination of the transmission strategy also on the application priority. For example if two applications are executing concurrently, one with a transmission priority of low power consumption and the other with a transmission priority of high performance, the Mobile RF communications device may use the transmission strategy to use single SIM-multiple carrier for the second application and single SIM-single carrier for the first application.
If two applications are executing concurrently, one with a transmission priority of high reliability and the other with a transmission priority of high performance, the Mobile RF communications device may use the transmission strategy to use single SIM-multiple carrier for the second application and dual SIM-single carrier for the first application, wherein one modem (and SIM) services both applications in a time division manner.
If the Mobile RF communications device 100 determines that a dual SIM transmission strategy is to be used, it may operate as has been explained in the above. If the Mobile RF communications device 100 determines that a single SIM transmission strategy is to be used, it may operate as will be disclosed below.
The communication protocol according to herein also accommodates for differences in the cases when data is sent to a traditional receiver (who only uses one IP address) and when data is sent to a device that operates in DSDA mode (whereby two different IP addresses are being used-one for each SIM connection of the receiving end). Typically, an online server connected to the Internet, or, a traditional mobile device with only one SIM card, falls into the category of traditional receivers. Devices operating in DSDA mode send data to traditional receivers by using their single destination address for all traffic regardless if it is sent over physical port SIM1 (first modem 131) or SIM2 (second modem 132). If both peers operate in DSDA mode, traffic over SIM1 will use one of the receiving ends' IP addresses, and traffic over SIM2 will use the other IP address of the receiving end. Similarly, if the transmitter is a traditional device or a DSDA capable device that is not operated in DSDA mode (i.e., only uses one IP address) while the receiver is operated in DSDA mode, the outbound traffic will be duplicated and sent to each of the two addresses associated with the receiving end over the transmitter's single active network interface using time multiplexing. This improves reliability in the reception.
In
By implementing the protocol for setting up and tearing down sessions involving one or two devices that are operated in DSDA mode at the same architectural level as where the processing of the data that is exchanged using this mode takes place, it is possible to build this solution without changing existing network protocols or modification to any 3GPP standard. It is also possible for a DSDA capable device to mix traffic in DSDA mode with traditional single SIM traffic based on settings and requirements for individual applications. However, doing this may affect the available data rate for DSDA mode traffic, as at least one of the SIM channels will now be shared for traffic belonging to two or more applications. As there are two SIM cards in the DSDA capable device, a new single SIM connection can be established over any of these. By monitoring traffic load and keeping track of pricing information for the different operators, it is possible to establish single SIM connections based on performance or cost criterion.
The invention has mainly been described above with reference to a few embodiments. However, as is readily appreciated by a person skilled in the art, other embodiments than the ones disclosed above are equally possible within the scope of the invention, as defined by the appended patent claims.
| Filing Document | Filing Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCT/EP2014/074945 | 11/18/2014 | WO | 00 |
