Transport network management system based on trend analysis

• US 20040098457A1
• Filed: 08/28/2003
• Published: 05/20/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Martinot, Olivier, Marilly, Emmanuel, Betge-Brezetz, Stephane
• Application Number:
  US10/469,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20040098457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/064 involving time analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5025 by proactively reacting to service quality change, e.g. by reconfiguration after service quality degradation or upgrade

Abstract

A network management system, comprising a data acquisition module (DAM) coming from the carrier network managed, characterised in that it comprises a trend calculation module (TCM) able to determine the trend of a set of data acquired, and a satisfaction calculation module (SCM) able to determine the satisfaction of conditions associated with the trends.

Claims

1. A network management system comprising a data acquisition module (DAM) coming from the carrier network managed, characterised in that it comprises a trend calculation module (TCM) able to determine the trend of a set of acquired data, and a satisfaction calculation module (SCM) able to determine the satisfaction of conditions associated with the said trends, to determine the time at which a condition commences no longer to be satisfied, and to trigger an alarm when the said time exceeds a given threshold.

2. A network management system according to the preceding claim, in which the said conditions are formed from thresholds and comparison operators linking the said thresholds to the said trends.

3. A network management system according to one of the preceding claims, comprising in addition a trend definition base (TDB) containing the parameters of the association between the data acquired and the said trends and a condition definition base (CDB) defining the association between the conditions and the trends.

4. A network management system according to one of the preceding claims, having in addition means for classifying the condition non-satisfaction situations, according to the said times.

5. A network management system according to one of the preceding claims, in which a reliability value is associated with the said trends.

6. A network management system according to one of the preceding claims, comprising in addition a man-machine interface (IHM) making it possible to produce prediction requests.

7. A network management system according to one of the preceding claims, comprising in addition an action triggering module (ADM) for triggering corrective actions associated with the said conditions, when the said condition satisfaction calculation module (SCM) has determined that a condition was not satisfied.

8. A network management system according to the preceding claim, in which the said action triggering module is able to transmit the said corrective actions to the equipment in the said carrier network managed and/or to a traffic management module (TMM).

9. A network management system according to one of claims 7 or 8, in which the said action triggering module is able to transmit the said corrective actions to a planning service in charge of the said carrier network managed.

10. A service management system, comprising a network management system according to one of claims 1 to 9.