Title :
SCOUT: an approach to automating diagnoses of faults in large scale networks
Author :
Sasisekharan, Raguram ; Hsu, Yung-Kao ; Simen, David
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Labs., Middletown, NJ, USA
fDate :
29 Nov-2 Dec 1993
Abstract :
There has been some success in automating the diagnosis of transmission problems in large telecommunications networks such as AT&T´s digital communication network. This paper describes a new approach to automatic diagnosis that uses network topology and network behavior history to automate the troubleshooting of transmission problems in any large telecommunications network. We have developed and deployed a system based on this approach. This system is currently being used by technicians to troubleshoot problems in AT&T´s network and it has been found to be very effective
Keywords :
automatic test equipment; digital communication systems; large-scale systems; network topology; telecommunication network management; telecommunications computing; AT&T; SCOUT; automatic fault diagnosis; digital communication network; large scale networks; large telecommunications networks; network behavior history; network maintenance; network management; network topology; transmission problems; troubleshooting; Artificial intelligence; Circuit testing; Communication networks; Diagnostic expert systems; Digital communication; History; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Large-scale systems; Telecommunication network topology;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1993, including a Communications Theory Mini-Conference. Technical Program Conference Record, IEEE in Houston. GLOBECOM '93., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0917-0
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1993.318125
