Telecom Event Summary Routing for Server Resource Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Telecommunications networks face significant challenges in efficiently routing and processing large volumes of event reports due to variations in encoding formats and contents, leading to substantial server resource consumption and complex decoding operations.
Innovation Solution
A method of generating and transmitting event summaries, such as binary sequences or Bloom filters, that can be interrogated without decoding, to provide meta-information about event data, reducing the need for extensive decoding and analysis of event reports.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If event reports are decoded and analyzed in detail to enable proper routing and processing, then accurate event handling is achieved, but server resource consumption increases substantially
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential routing information from event reports into compact summaries. Instead of decoding and analyzing entire event reports, the system extracts key identifiers and routes based on these summaries, significantly reducing processing resources while maintaining accurate event routing and handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The event reporting system is segmented into two parts: compact summaries containing essential routing information and full event reports containing complete details. The summaries are processed for routing decisions, while full reports are processed only when necessary, dividing the processing workload and reducing overall server resource consumption.
2Reliability
If detailed decoding operations are performed on event reports to determine routing, then correct event processing is achieved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary encoding of routing information into event report summaries at the source node before transmission. This preliminary action ensures that routing decisions can be made quickly at the destination node without requiring time-consuming decoding operations, thus reducing processing time while maintaining correct event processing.
Solution Approach 2:
Essential routing information is extracted from full event reports and placed in compact summaries. The destination node can make routing decisions based on these summaries without performing detailed decoding operations on the full reports, significantly reducing processing time while ensuring correct event processing through accurate routing.
3Loss of information
If complex decoding operations are performed on all event reports, then complete event information is obtained, but network resource load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different processing quality levels to different parts of the event reporting system. Event report summaries receive detailed processing for routing decisions, while full event reports receive processing only when specifically needed. This local differentiation of processing quality reduces overall network resource load while ensuring complete event information is available when required.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of performing complete decoding operations on all event reports, the system performs partial decoding only on summaries containing essential routing information. Full decoding is performed only when necessary, reducing network resource load while maintaining the ability to obtain complete event information when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
In a telecommunications network, information about events that occur at nodes (27) is sent to event-based management applications (31) in operations and maintenance servers (21). Event reports (23) comprising such event information are replaced or accompanied in data packets by event summaries (33). The summaries (33) can be used to route the data packets to the correct event-based management application (31) with less processing time and resources than if the event reports (23) are used for routeing, because information about the events can be obtained from the summaries (33) more easily than from the event reports (23). Routeing using the summaries (33) may be done in a fast path. Some event-based management applications can use the summaries (33) instead of the event reports (23), which can also save processing time and resources, and such event-based management applications may be performed in a fast path.