Automatic Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Cellular Networks and Beyond 5G: Intelligent Network Management

Abstract

Handling faults in a running cellular network can impair the performance and dissatisfy the end users. It is important to design an automatic self-healing procedure to not only detect the active faults, but also to diagnosis them automatically. Although fault detection has been well studied in the literature, fewer studies have targeted the more complicated task of diagnosing. Our presented method aims to tackle fault detection and diagnosis using two sets of data collected by the network: performance support system data and drive test data. Although performance support system data is collected automatically by the network, drive test data are collected manually in three mode call scenarios: short, long and idle. The short call can identify faults in a call setup, the long call is designed to identify handover failures and call interruption, and, finally, the idle mode is designed to understand the characteristics of the standard signal in the network. We have applied unsupervised learning, along with various classified algorithms, on performance support system data. Congestion and failures in TCH assignments are a few examples of the detected and diagnosed faults with our method. In addition, we present a framework to identify the need for handovers. The Silhouette coefficient is used to evaluate the quality of the unsupervised learning approach. We achieved an accuracy of 96.86% with the dynamic neural network method.

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