Layer Integrated Failure Display for Network Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
In next-generation communication networks, the integration of different layers for maintenance and monitoring is complex, leading to difficulties in quickly identifying failure locations and affecting network reliability and efficiency, as maintenance personnel face challenges in managing and isolating faults across various layers.
Innovation Solution
A setting device and method that allows maintenance personnel to select layer types and management methods, enabling either integrated or individual layer settings, which processes and displays only necessary information to facilitate rapid fault assessment and isolation, reducing the burden on network administrators and improving operational efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If integrated layer management is implemented, then network operation simplicity and cost are improved, but failure identification complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments failure information display by layer type (transport layer, packet layer, etc.) and by failure category (own-layer failures, repercussion failures from lower layers). This segmentation allows maintenance personnel to selectively view only relevant failure information for specific layers, reducing the time to identify failures while maintaining integrated management capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a dimensional organization of failure information by creating separate display regions for different layers and failure types. This multi-dimensional organization (layer dimension, failure type dimension) enables quick navigation and identification of specific failures within the integrated management framework.
2Measurement precision
If all layer failure information is displayed, then measurement precision is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides comprehensive failure information into segmented categories by layer type and failure origin. This segmentation maintains complete failure information for accurate diagnosis while organizing it in a structured manner that reduces processing complexity through systematic categorization.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display are assigned different qualities and functions: some regions show transport layer failures, others show packet layer failures, and specific regions highlight repercussion failures. This local quality differentiation allows the system to process and present comprehensive information efficiently by treating different information types according to their specific characteristics.
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AI summary
To provide an apparatus capable of receiving the signals different in various services and various signal types to facilitate an isolation of a fault location. To provide a layer integrated device in which a maintenance person 3001 can arbitrarily select a maintenance method for a maintenance according to needs for maintenance of an individual layer or needs for maintenance with a result of performing an inter-layer processing. A setting screen on which the maintenance person 3001 can select a layer type to manage and a management method is mounted on a setting device 3000. The maintenance person 3001 selects and sets a layer integrated setting or a layer individual setting on a display section 3005 and a setting section 3004. From a set result of the maintenance person 3001, the setting device 3000 or an NE 3007 performs a corresponding process and displays a failure indication.