Systems and methods for modeling and optimizing a telecommunications network

A computing device comprising:

• a processing device;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with instructions, when executed by the processing device, cause the processing device to perform the operations of:
• generating, based on network data obtained from a database, an initial network model comprising nodes representing components of a network and edges representing connections between components of the network;
• applying a transformation to the initial network model to combine similar nodes and edges of the initial network model and reduce a number of nodes and edges of the initial network model;
• generating, based on the transformed network model, a shortest path network model comprising edges corresponding to a shortest path determination between a plurality of nodes of the transformed network model;
• simulating, based on the shortest path network model, a failure scenario of the network, the simulation comprising altering a characteristic of an edge of the shortest path network model based on a routing scheme of a communication link of the network corresponding to the edge;
• and
• obtaining, based on the simulated failure scenario, an operating characteristic of the network,
• wherein the routing scheme is an Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing scheme and wherein generating the shortest path network model comprises transposing the transformed network model to reverse a dependency between the plurality of nodes of the transformed network model.

A non-transitory computer readable media comprising computer executable instructions to perform a computer-implemented method of modeling a telecommunications network comprising:

• generating, based on network data obtained from a database, an initial network model comprising nodes representing components of a network and edges representing connections between components of the network;
• applying a transformation to the initial network model to combine similar nodes and edges of the initial network model and reduce a number of nodes and edges of the initial network model;
• generating, based on the transformed network model, a shortest path network model comprising edges corresponding to a shortest path determination between a plurality of nodes of the transformed network model;
• and
• simulating, based on the shortest path network model, a failure scenario of the network, wherein the simulation comprises altering a characteristic of an edge of the shortest path network model based on a routing scheme of the network,
• wherein the routing scheme is an Equal Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing scheme and wherein generating the shortest path network model comprises transposing the transformed network model to reverse a dependency between the plurality of nodes of the transformed network model.