Behavioural Proximity Discovery: an adaptive approach for root cause analysis

  • Authors:
  • M-Tahar Kechadi;Jacques Henry Bellec;AbdelKamel Tari

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.;School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.;Department of Computer Science, University A. MIRA of Bejaia, Targua Ouzemour, 06000 Bejaia, Algeria

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new approach to deal with the fault recognition problem in modern telecommunication networks, called Behavioural Proximity Discovery (BPD). BPD is a framework for root cause analysis that consists of three complementary clustering algorithms based on alarm behaviours. It provides a complete and adaptive solution to the network manager who can then decide of the repair actions to restore the network back to a normal state. An evaluation of this approach on both simulated and real data from 3G mobile-networks is presented and discussed.