Schemes for Distributed Fault Identification in Communication Networks.
A.T. Bouloutas
First Bank of Boston, Boston MA 0216.
S.B. Calo
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Email: calo_AT_watson.ibm.com
A. Finkel
Morgan Stanley and Company
1633 Broadway NY NY 10019
Email: afinkel_AT_morgan.com
I. Katzela
Columbia University,
Rm 801 Schapiro bld,
530 West 120th str.
New York, N.Y. 10027.
Email: irene_AT_ctr.columbia.edu
Abstract
Telecommunications networks are often managed by a large number of management
centers, each responsible for a logically autonomous part of the network.
This could be a small sub-network such as an Ethernet, a Token Ring or an FDDI
ring, or a large sub-network comprised of many smaller networks. In response
to a single fault, in a telecommunications network, many network elements may
raise alarms, which are typically reported only to the sub-area management
center that contains the network element raising the alarm. As a result, a
particular management center has a partial view of the status of the
network. Management Centers must therefore cooperate in order to correctly
infer the real cause of the failure. The algorithms proposed in this paper,
outline the way these management centers could collaborate in correlating
alarms and identifying faults.
JNSM: Vol. 3, No. 3, 1995
Schemes for Distributed Fault Identification in Communication Networks. [Vol. 3, No. 3, 1995]
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