Radio frame analysis system, radio frame analysis method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11877168-B2
Application number	US-202117512821-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2021
Priority date	Nov 4, 2020
Publication date	Jan 16, 2024
Grant date	Jan 16, 2024

Abstract

A radio frame analysis system includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value; a distance calculation unit that calculates a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing; a reliability determination unit that determines reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters; an output unit that outputs a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit; and an output timing change unit that changes a timing at which the output unit outputs the result of the analysis by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A radio frame analysis system comprising:
at least one memory storing program instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: analyze a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value;
calculate a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing;
determine reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters;
output a result of the analysis; and
change a timing at which the result of the analysis is output by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

2. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:
perform the clustering processing each time a predetermined number of samples of the frame feature value are obtained, and
when the reliability is less than a predetermined threshold, perform control so that the result of the analysis is output at the time when the clustering processing is performed on the frame feature value for a preset first number of samples, while when the reliability is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, perform control so that the result of the analysis is immediately output regardless of whether or not the number of samples of the frame feature value to be subjected to the clustering processing has reached the first number.

3. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 2 , wherein
the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to, when the reliability is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold, perform control so that the result of the analysis is not output when the number of samples of the frame feature value to be subjected to the clustering processing has not reached a preset second number, and
the second number is a number smaller than the first number.

4. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to calculate the distance between the clusters by using a Mahalanobis distance or a normalized Euclidean distance.

5. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to output information about the reliability or the distance between the clusters together with the result of the analysis.

6. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 1 , the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:
count the number of transmission nodes in a reception data sequence;
calculate an extraction period based on a result of the counting; and
extract the frame feature value from the reception data sequence received in the extraction period.

7. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 1 , the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to, by using a plurality of reception sensors, estimate transmission power or a transmission position of each of the transmission nodes from information about reception strengths of the reception data sequences acquired by the plurality of reception sensors, respectively.

8. The radio frame analysis system according to claim 7 , wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to perform an analysis by using information about the transmission power or the transmission position estimated for each of the transmission nodes.

9. A radio frame analysis method comprising:
analyzing a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value;
calculating a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing;
determining reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters; and
changing a timing at which the result of the analysis is output by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

10. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute:
an analysis step of analyzing a network configuration by performing clustering processing on a frame feature value;
a distance calculation step of calculating a distance between clusters obtained by the clustering processing;
a reliability determination step of determining reliability of a result of the clustering processing based on the distance between the clusters;
an output step of outputting a result of the analysis; and
an output timing change step of changing a timing at which the result of the analysis is output by changing the number of samples of the frame feature value required to output the result in accordance with the reliability.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Takeuchi Toshiki
• Okada Kohei

Classifications

• H04W24/08 Primary

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04W40/246 Primary

  Connectivity information discovery · CPC title