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AssigneeBritish Telecommunications public limited company
InventorsOkung Ntofon, Siddhartha Shakya, Gilbert Owusu, Jonathan Malpass, Alistair McCormick
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Information received from disparate individual monitors that are concurrently measuring a predetermined property of a predetermined resource in a network are compared in a reliability computation engine to compute a metric of the degree of similarity between their measurements, and thus to determine a measure of the reliability of one or more of the individual monitors. This information can be used by a provisioning engine to select or reject individual resources for use in meeting service requirements on the basis of the reliability of the reports of their performance, as well as the reported performance itself. Monitors identified as unreliable can also be reported to a fault diagnosis function.
A method for determining a measure of reliability of one or more individual monitors, comprising:
A networked component adapted to determine a measure of reliability of one or more individual monitors that concurrently measure a predetermined property of a predetermined resource in a network, comprising:
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