Method and system for detecting and resolving anomalies in a wireless network
AssigneeSpectrum Effect Inc.
InventorsRekha Menon, David James Ryan
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Abstract
Anomalies at nodes of a wireless network can be detected by receiving performance measurement (PM) data for a plurality of nodes in the wireless telecommunications network, accessing sets of binned data of the PM data for each node of the plurality of nodes, comparing at least one characteristic of the binned data for each node to at least one of a threshold value and the binned data for another node of the plurality of nodes, and determining whether an anomaly is present at each of the plurality of nodes based on a result of the comparison.
Claims18
An automatic method for a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising:
- receiving performance measurement (PM) data for a plurality of nodes in the wireless telecommunications network, wherein the PM data is based on measurements taken by base stations of the wireless telecommunications network;
- accessing sets of binned data of the PM data for each node of the plurality of nodes;
- comparing at least one characteristic of the binned data for each node to at least one of a threshold value and the binned data for another node of the plurality of nodes;
- determining whether an anomaly is present at each of the plurality of nodes based on a result of the comparison;
- and
- rendering an output indicating whether the anomaly is present on a display,
- wherein comparing the at least one characteristic comprises comparing a spread of each set of binned data to the threshold value, and
- wherein an anomaly is determined to be present at a respective node associated with each set of binned data that exceeds the threshold value.
A wireless telecommunications system comprising a spectrum analysis server coupled to a performance monitoring system, the spectrum analysis server comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium with instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, perform the following steps:
- receiving performance measurement (PM) data for a plurality of nodes in the wireless telecommunications network, wherein the PM data is based on measurements taken by base stations of the wireless telecommunications network;
- accessing sets of binned data of the PM data for each node of the plurality of nodes;
- comparing at least one characteristic of the binned data for each node to at least one of a threshold value and the binned data for another node of the plurality of nodes;
- determining whether an anomaly is present at each of the plurality of nodes based on a result of the comparison;
- and
- rendering an output indicating whether the anomaly is present on a display,
- wherein comparing the at least one characteristic comprises comparing a spread of each set of binned data to the threshold value, and
- wherein an anomaly is determined to be present at a respective node associated with each set of binned data that exceeds the threshold value.
An automatic method for a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising:
- receiving performance measurement (PM) data for a plurality of nodes in the wireless telecommunications network, wherein the PM data is based on measurements taken by base stations of the wireless telecommunications network;
- accessing sets of binned data of the PM data for each node of the plurality of nodes;
- comparing at least one characteristic of the binned data for each node to at least one of a threshold value and the binned data for another node of the plurality of nodes;
- and
- determining whether an anomaly is present at each of the plurality of nodes based on a result of the comparison,
- wherein comparing the at least one characteristic comprises:
- comparing a spread of each set of binned data to a first threshold value;
- comparing a distance between consecutive sets of binned data of each node to a second threshold value;
- comparing shapes and positions of sets of binned data for a same time interval to each other;
- and
- rendering an output indicating whether the anomaly is present on a display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.