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Method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling communications networks

  • US 5,687,290 A
  • Filed: 10/15/1996
  • Issued: 11/11/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for monitoring and controlling a communications network, comprising:

  • a separate network monitor and controller, coupled to the communications network, providing numeric data representative of at least one operating parameter of the communications network and controlling at least one network parameter;

    a separate system that requires only fuzzy logic operations to control the communications network, comprising;

    a fuzzifier module, coupled to the network monitor, converting the numeric data into fuzzy input data;

    a fuzzy inference engine, coupled to the fuzzifier module, for processing the fuzzy input data according to at least one fuzzy rule to provide fuzzy output data representative of control actions that effect a desired state of the communications network;

    a defuzzifier module, coupled to the fuzzy inference engine, converting the fuzzy output data into numeric data for the separate network monitor and controller to control at least one network parameter in response thereto; and

    an operator interface allowing user observation of the fuzzy input data and the fuzzy output data, and user modification of said at least one fuzzy rule before converting the fuzzy output data into the numeric data to modify said fuzzy logic operations performed by said fuzzy inference engine during said control of the communications network.

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