IP Library Granted Patent US 10,187,814
Granted Patent B2
US 10,187,814 · App. 15/156,264 · Granted Jan 22, 2019

Systems and methods for hybrid wireless communication network

Inventor: Bernard McKibben (Broomfield, CO)
Assignee: Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
H04W24/08H04L25/00H04W16/02H04W88/085
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Patent No.
US 10,187,814
App. No.
15/156,264
Granted
Jan 22, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A hybrid quantum-conventional computing system and method for analyzing band capture data and determining if a solution is an NP-hard problem or a polynomial time problem. The NP-hard problem is processed by a quantum computing system and the polynomial time problem is processed by a conventional computing system. The final result is an optimized radio resource management solution.

Claims (21)

1. A wireless communications system, comprising:

a feedback processing unit for analyzing captured bandwidth data from a remote radio head;

a problem-type processor in operable communication with the feedback processing unit, and configured to (i) analyze the captured bandwidth data to determine whether the captured bandwidth data presents one of a computational polynomial time problem and a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem, and (ii) transmit problem-specific data based on the determination, wherein the problem-specific data comprises binary data information;

a communications processor in operable communication with the problem-type processor, and configured to process polynomial time problem data from the transmitted problem-specific data;

a quantum computer in operable communication with the problem-type processor, and configured to process NP-hard problem data received from the transmitted problem-specific data; and

a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) unit interposed between the problem-type processor and the quantum computer,

wherein the QUBO unit is configured to translate the binary data information of the NP-hard problem data from the problem-type processor in two qbit data information for processing by the quantum computer.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the communications processor comprises a cloud computing system.

3. A wireless communications system, comprising:

a feedback processing unit for analyzing captured bandwidth data from a remote radio head;

a problem-type processor in operable communication with the feedback processing unit, and configured to (i) analyze the captured bandwidth data to determine whether the captured bandwidth data presents one of a computational polynomial time problem and a non-deterministic polynomial-time hard (NP-hard) problem, and (ii) transmit problem-specific data based on the determination, wherein the problem-specific data comprises binary data information:

a communications processor in operable communication with the problem-type processor, and configured to process polynomial time problem data from the transmitted problem-specific data:

a quantum computer in operable communication with the problem-type processor, and configured to process NP-hard problem data received from the transmitted problem-specific data; and

a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) unit interposed between the problem-type processor and the quantum computer, wherein the QUBO unit is configured to transmit the binary data information of the polynomial time problem to the communications processor without translation.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the captured bandwidth data includes one or more of real-time performance data from the remote radio head, user profile data, and external data.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the NP-hand problem comprises one or more of a mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP) and a quadratic semi-assignment problem (QSAP).

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the captured bandwidth data includes at least one 100 ms sample of captured data.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the captured bandwidth data includes a set of minimums.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the set of minimums includes one or more of MEMO coefficients, a local minimum, or global minimums.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the quantum computer is configured to identify at least one network signature from the captured bandwidth data.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the communications processor is configured to receive the at least one identified network signature from the quantum computer and assign a priority to at least one network corresponding to the identified network signature.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2017
From: MCKIBBEN, BERNARD
To: CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC.
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Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62161407 · May 14, 2015
Related Publication 20160338075A1 · Nov 17, 2016