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Granted Patent B2
US 12,634,747 · App. 17/551,871 · Granted May 19, 2026

Intelligent transport system congestion and multi-channel control

Inventors: Satish C. Jha (Portland, OR); Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, OR); Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan (Portland, OR); Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Munich, DE); Suman A. Sehra (Folsom, CA)
Assignee: Intel Corporation
H04W28/0289H04W4/40H04W28/082H04W48/06H04W74/0816H04W72/569
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Patent No.
US 12,634,747
App. No.
17/551,871
Granted
May 19, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present disclosure provides techniques or mechanisms to reduce congestion or improve efficiency of intelligent transport system (ITS) congestion and multi-channel control. Some embodiments relate to multi-channel transmission of ITS-related service messages. Some embodiments relate to use of a freshness factor in scheduling ITS transmissions. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

Claims (25)

1 . An intelligent transportation system (ITS)-station (ITS-S) comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that, upon execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, are to cause a facilities layer (FAC) entity to:

identify, based on a radio access technology (RAT)-related indication received from a cross-layer management (CROSS) entity, an available channel busy ratio (CBR) percentage per radio channel of a wireless connection between the ITS-S and another ITS entity, wherein the RAT-related indication includes context-related information of a RAT on which the respective messages are to be transmitted;

identify a freshness factor related to respective messages that are to be transmitted on a wireless connection by the ITS-S;

calculate, based on the CBR and the freshness factor, a minimum inter-message interval for respective applications and respective traffic classes of the wireless connection; and

provide, to the CROSS entity, an indication of the minimum inter-message intervals for the respective applications and respective traffic classes.

2 . The ITS-S of claim 1 , wherein the context-related information includes position, speed, or heading of nodes within a vicinity of the ITS-S that are configured to communicate on the RAT.

3 . The ITS-S of claim 1 , wherein the CROSS entity is to identify, based on the indication of the minimum inter-message intervals for the respective applications and respective traffic classes, a channel resource limit (CRL) for a channel of the wireless connection.

4 . The ITS-S of claim 3 , wherein the CROSS entity is further to allocate, for a channel related to the CRL, a proportion of an available channel resource (CR) for transmission of the respective messages.

5 . The ITS-S of claim 3 , wherein the channel is a first channel, and wherein the CROSS entity is further to identify, based on the indication of the minimum inter-message intervals for the respective applications and respective traffic classes, a second CRL for a second channel of the wireless connection.

6 . The ITS-S of claim 1 , wherein the freshness factor is a freshness of information parameter or a remaining lifetime of information (RLoI) parameter.

7 . The ITS-S of claim 6 , wherein the freshness factor further includes a weight applied to the freshness of information parameter or a weight applied to the RLoI parameter.

8 . The ITS-S of claim 1 , wherein the CROSS entity is a multi-channel operation (MCO) CROSS (MCO_CROSS) entity or a decentralized congestion control (DCC) CROSS (DCC_CROSS) entity.

9 . The ITS-S of claim 1 , wherein the FAC entity is a multi-channel operation (MCO) FAC (MCO_FAC) entity or a decentralized congestion control (DCC) FAC (DCC_FAC) entity.

10 . One or more non-transitory computer-readable media (NTCRM) comprising instructions for operating a cross-layer management (CROSS) entity of an intelligent transportation system (ITS)-station (ITS-S), wherein execution of the instructions by one or more processors of the ITS-S is to cause the ITS-S to operate the CROSS entity to:

send a radio access technology (RAT)-related indicator to a facilities layer (FAC) entity, the RAT-related indicator for identification of an available channel busy ratio (CBR) percentage per radio channel of a wireless connection between the ITS-S and another ITS entity, wherein the RAT-related indication includes context-related information of a RAT on which the respective messages are to be transmitted;

receive, from the FAC entity, an inter-message interval indicator that includes respective minimum inter-message intervals for corresponding applications and corresponding traffic classes, wherein the respective minimum inter-message intervals are based on the CBR and a freshness factor related to respective messages that are to be transmitted on a wireless connection by the ITS-S.

11 . The one or more NTCRM of claim 10 , wherein the context-related information includes position, speed, or heading of nodes within a vicinity of the ITS-S that are configured to communicate on the RAT.

12 . The one or more NTCRM of claim 10 , wherein execution of the instructions is to cause the ITS-S to operate the CROSS entity to:

identify a first channel resource limit (CRL) for a first channel of the wireless connection based on the inter-message interval indicator for the respective applications and respective traffic classes;

identify a second CRL for a second channel of the wireless connection based on the inter-message interval indicator for the respective applications and respective traffic classes; and

allocate, for the first channel or the second channel, a proportion of an available channel resource (CR) for transmission of the respective messages.

13 . The one or more NTCRM of claim 10 , wherein the freshness factor further includes a weight applied to a freshness of an information parameter or a weight applied to a remaining lifetime of information (RLoI) parameter.

14 . The one or more NTCRM of claim 10 , wherein the CROSS entity is a multi-channel operation (MCO) CROSS (MCO_CROSS) entity or a decentralized congestion control (DCC) CROSS (DCC_CROSS) entity, and the FAC entity is a multi-channel operation (MCO) FAC (MCO_FAC) entity or a decentralized congestion control (DCC) FAC (DCC_FAC) entity.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2021
From: JHA, SATISH C.; SHARMA BANJADE, VESH RAJ; SIVANESAN, KATHIRAVETPILLAI; GOMES BALTAR, LEONARDO; SEHRA, SUMAN A.
To: INTEL CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 058400/0111 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 63181775 · Apr 29, 2021
Provisional Application 63181806 · Apr 29, 2021
Related Publication 20220110018A1 · Apr 7, 2022
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