Measuring outages in telecommunications switched networks

Author

Daneshmand, Mahmoud ; Savolaine, C.

Author_Institution

AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

31

Issue

6

fYear

1993

fDate

6/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

38

Abstract

The actions taken by end-users, service providers, standards bodies, and government and regulators agencies relating to network reliability and service outages are reviewed. End-to-end customer perceivable characteristics of network reliability and network outages are identified. The traditional definition of reliability is extended to include reliability of a telecommunication network and services. The fundamental concepts of network reliability are formulated. Network outages are defined and a framework for measuring network outages is presented. This framework is applied to the circuit switched network.<>

Keywords

circuit switching; reliability; switching networks; telecommunication networks; telecommunication services; circuit switched network; measurement framework; network outages; network reliability; service outages; telecommunication services; telecommunications switched networks; FCC; Government; Intelligent networks; Laboratories; Regulators; Standards organizations; Telecommunication network reliability; Telecommunication services; Telecommunication switching; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/35.214888

Filename

214888