A constraint-based approach to simulate faults in telecommunication networks

  • Authors:
  • Aomar Osmani;François Lévy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE '00 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: Intelligent problem solving: methodologies and approaches
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

To study the consequences of fault situations in telecommunication management networks (TMN), we have proposed a model-based diagnosis approach based on the CSP paradigm. First the TMN is modeled, then a set of breakdown situations is simulated in order to build a fault-training base. Finally, a rule-based system is generated and used to detect faults in the real system. In this work, we are interested in the simulation process. The fault simulation comes down to the propagation in the network, of the information emitted by the breakdown components. To take into account the inaccuracies of the transmissions in the network and the times of events processing, we represent temporal knowledge by time intervals. The components are modeled by extended transducers. Consequently, the behavior of the components is sensitive to the order of happened events that have occurred. To reason about these behaviors, a CSP formalism is studied. The main aim is not to compute a possible behavior of a component but to compute all the behaviors making it possible to build a faults-training database. Some polynomial algorithms are proposed to computes solutions and to update temporal constraints.