US 12,111,622 B2
Autonomous network, controller and method
Pierre Imai, Tokyo (JP); Paul Harvey, Tokyo (JP); and Tareq Amin, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/597,028
Filed by RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 17, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/010757
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/210329, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 21, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/010,660, filed on Apr. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0152761 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G05B 15/02 (2006.01)
CPC G05B 15/02 (2013.01) 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
14. A method of operating an autonomous network,
the network comprising a plurality of controllers interconnected into a system hierarchy graph, each of the plurality of controllers being an operation controller (OC) or an evolution controller (EC) and comprising:
at least one memory containing a plurality of composable and replaceable modules, and
at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory and configured to execute the plurality of modules in an interconnected manner,
the method comprising:
controlling, by an OC, hardware equipment or another OC below in the system hierarchy graph;
controlling and evolving, by an EC, an existing controller below in the system hierarchy graph, wherein said evolving comprises:
identifying a number of composable and replaceable candidate modules which are composable to complete a section of a controller graph,
determining a plurality of different compositions in each of which various candidate modules are interconnected to complete the section of the controller graph, and
outputting a plurality of evolved controllers each corresponding to one of the plurality of compositions; and
performing, by an experimentation manager, an online experimentation to determine whether said existing controller is replaceable by any of the plurality of evolved controllers.