This invention discloses an interpretable fault diagnosis method for
Software-Defined Packet Transport Networks (SPTN) based on a manifold learning-based confidence rule base (ML-BRB), belonging to the field of network fault diagnosis and interpretable
artificial intelligence technology. Addressing the problems of BRB
combinatorial explosion caused by high-dimensional
coupling of SPTN
network monitoring indicators and the loss of physical
semantics of low-dimensional features after manifold
dimensionality reduction, leading to the inability to initialize BRB parameters, this invention proposes the "SPTN network state manifold space
hypothesis." It utilizes the t-SNE
algorithm to map high-dimensional
monitoring data to a low-dimensional manifold space. Based on manifold geometry and dynamic neighborhood statistics, it adaptively determines the initial parameters of the BRB, including adaptive adjustment of reference values and confidence frequency
estimation. Through the IF-THEN rule structure of the BRB model, it outputs fault types and confidence distributions with physical meaning, and uses the one-to-one correspondence between samples before and after
dimensionality reduction to backtrack the original high-dimensional data, forming a diagnostic
closed loop of "manifold decoupling—rule interpretation—sample
backtracking." This invention achieves transparency and
interpretability in the fault diagnosis process while ensuring
diagnostic accuracy, meeting the stringent real-time requirement of 50ms switching in SPTN networks.