Method and system for traffic shaping at the DU/CU to artificially reduce the total traffic load on the radio receiver so that not all the TTLs are carrying data
Systems and methods are provided for adaptive channel, beamforming, and traffic shaping management in a network including configuring an element management system to monitor, via a distribution unit (DU) and/or a central unit (CU) power and channel traffic at a plurality of cell sites in a network; applying, in response to a detection of a power outage at a cell site, at least one power saving schema including adaptive channel management, adaptive beam management, and/or adaptive traffic management, wherein the systems and methods incrementally reduce power consumption at the cell site by choking at least on channel based on a level of network traffic congestion. The systems and methods further limits users for congested channels, determines a relationship between power reduction as a result of the choking, arranges power to beamforming systems based on the choking, adjusts traffic of one or more applications, and move users of choked channels.
1. A system for adaptive channel and traffic shaping management in a network, comprising:
a scheduler unit;
a control unit; and
an element management system, wherein the element management system is configured to:
monitor, via at least one selected from the group of a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), power and channel traffic conditions at a plurality of cell sites in the network; and
apply, in response to a detection of a power outage at a first cell site of the plurality of cell sites and via the control unit and the scheduler unit, at least one power saving schema of a set of power-saving schema, wherein the set of power-saving schema comprises an adaptive channel management schema, an adaptive beam management schema, and an adaptive traffic management schema, wherein:
the control unit is configured, according to the set of power-saving schema, to incrementally reduce power consumption at the first cell site by choking at least one available channel to limit network traffic on the at least one available channel based on a level of congestion of network traffic of the at least one available channel between one or more users; wherein the choking of the at least one available channel comprises, according to application of the adaptive channel management schema, limiting a number of users for a heavily loaded channel.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured in at least the adaptive channel management schema to not guarantee fairness between one or more subscribers in the network.
3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is configured to determine a relationship between an amount of power reduced at the first cell site as a result of the choking, and incrementally reduce power consumption of the first cell site based on each individual channel choked.
4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the control unit is configured by the beam management schema to arrange power supplied to a plurality of beamforming systems of the first cell site based on the choked at least one channel.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the traffic management schema comprises one or more rules configured to at least one selected from the group of allowing, throttling, and blocking traffic of one or more applications.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the scheduler unit is configured to use a certain number of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing symbols to reduce channel consumption power and to manage the network traffic on congested channels by enabling a dynamic set of mini-slots to send and receive data requests.
7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the scheduler unit is configured, according to the adaptive traffic management schema, to enable transmissions over variable periods of traffic data sub-frames of one or more mini-slots based on a set of frequencies wherein a traffic data sub-frame is a fraction of a series of packet data transmitted in a slot.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one user of the at least one choked channel is moved a second channel that has not been choked.
9. A method for adaptive channel and traffic shaping management in a network performed by an element management system, comprising:
monitoring, by the element management system via at least one selected from the group of a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), power and channel traffic conditions at a plurality of cell sites in the network; and
applying, by the element management system in response to a detection of a power outage at a first cell site of the plurality of cell sites and via a control unit and a scheduler unit, at least one power saving schema of a set of power-saving schema, wherein the set of power-saving schema comprises an adaptive channel management schema, an adaptive beam management schema, and an adaptive traffic management schema, wherein:
the control unit incrementally reduces, according to the set of power-saving schema, power consumption at the first cell site by choking at least one available channel to limit network traffic on the at least one available channel based on a level of congestion of network traffic of the at least one available channel between one or more users; wherein the choking of the at least one available channel comprises, according to application of the adaptive channel management schema, limiting a number of users for a heavily loaded channel.
10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising not guaranteeing fairness between one or more subscribers in the network in at least the adaptive channel management schema.
11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising determining a relationship between an amount of power reduced at the first cell site as a result of the choking, and incrementally reducing power consumption of the first cell site based on each individual channel choked.
12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising arranging, by the control unit according to application of the beam management schema, power supplied to a plurality of beamforming systems of the first cell site based on the choked at least one channel.
13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the traffic management schema comprises one or more rules configured to at least one selected from the group of allowing, throttling, and blocking traffic of one or more applications.
14. The method of claim 9 , comprising:
using, by the scheduler unit, a certain number of Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing symbols to reduce channel consumption power and to manage the network traffic on congested channels by enabling a dynamic set of mini-slots to send and receive data requests; and
enabling, via the scheduler unit configured according to the adaptive traffic management schema, transmissions over variable periods of traffic data sub-frames of one or more mini-slots based on a set of frequencies wherein a traffic data sub-frame is a fraction of a series of packet data transmitted in a slot.
15. The method of claim 9 , further comprising moving at least one user of the at least one choked channel to a second channel that has not been choked.
16. A computer program product tangibly embodied in a non-transient computer-readable storage device that stores a set of instructions that when executed by one or more processors of an element management system perform a method for reducing power consumption at a cell site in a network, the method comprising:
monitoring, by the element management system via at least one selected from the group of a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU), power and channel traffic conditions at a plurality of cell sites in the network;
applying, by the element management system in response to a detection of a power outage at a first cell site of the plurality of cell sites and via a control unit and a scheduler unit, at least one power saving schema of a set of power-saving schema, wherein the set of power-saving schema comprises an adaptive channel management schema, an adaptive beam management schema, and an adaptive traffic management schema, wherein:
the control unit incrementally reduces, according to the set of power-saving schema, power consumption at the first cell site by choking at least one available channel to limit network traffic on the at least one available channel based on a level of congestion of network traffic of the at least one available channel between one or more users;
determining a relationship between an amount of power reduced at the first cell site as a result of the choking; and
incrementally reducing power consumption of the first cell site based on each individual channel choked.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising arranging, by the control unit according to application of the beam management schema, power supplied to a plurality of beamforming systems of the first cell site based on the choked at least one channel.