O-RAN Fallout Handling With Automated Error Resolution Playbooks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Validating and handling errors in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) with components from different vendors is challenging due to diverse error reporting codes and procedures, requiring significant time and resources, and manual intervention is prone to errors.
Innovation Solution
A fallout handling system that automatically identifies error codes, accesses a database to determine appropriate actions, and generates playbooks to resolve errors, utilizing a testing platform to generate and execute these actions across components from various vendors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If manual configuration and validation of O-RAN components from different vendors is performed, then flexibility to handle diverse error codes is maintained, but time consumption and human error increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments error handling into vendor-specific modules, each responsible for parsing and resolving errors from particular vendors. This allows automated error handling while maintaining manageability through modular architecture, where each module can be independently developed and maintained.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a standardized error code translation layer that acts as an intermediary between diverse vendor-specific error codes and a unified error resolution system. This mediator translates various vendor error formats into a common internal representation, enabling automated handling without requiring direct knowledge of all vendor-specific protocols.
2Productivity
If validation of components from multiple vendors is performed manually, then accuracy can be maintained, but deployment time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service validation where the automated error handling system validates its own operations by executing predefined resolution playbooks and verifying error elimination. The system monitors validation results and can re-validate without human intervention, maintaining both speed and accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where validation results are continuously monitored and fed back into the system. When errors are resolved, the system verifies the resolution effectiveness and updates its error handling databases, ensuring continuous improvement of validation accuracy while maintaining rapid deployment speeds.
3Reliability
If standardized error handling procedures are implemented across all vendors, then error resolution consistency improves, but adaptability to vendor-specific errors decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the error handling system into vendor-specific segments that can be independently configured. Each vendor module maintains specialized knowledge of that vendor's error codes while all modules share a common standardized resolution framework, achieving both consistency and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a universal error resolution framework that can handle multiple vendor-specific error types through a common playbook execution mechanism. This multi-functional approach allows a single standardized system to adapt to various vendor-specific errors by loading appropriate vendor modules dynamically.
Data Source
AI summary
A fallout engine performs fallout handling for errors generated by a component within a cell site. The fallout engine determines the occurrence of an error, identifies the error, determines what operations to perform to resolve the error, and causes the operations to be executed within the cell site. A testing platform can be used to generate information about the errors and playbooks/operations to resolve the errors.