Vendor-Agnostic Telecom Data Reporting Framework
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Solution Overview
Problem
In multivendor network environments, mobility management, session control, and customer experience data in wireless communication networks are fragmented across different vendors, leading to incomplete performance analysis due to uncoordinated reporting and vendor-specific data structures, making data harmonization challenging for analytics purposes.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for generating vendor-agnostic data reports by mapping telecom vendor-specific data to 3GPP standardized frameworks, using documented procedures, architectural structures, and terminology, enabling uniform reporting across different network vendors and future generations like 6G.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If vendor-specific reporting structures are used, then each vendor can maintain their native data formats and reporting methods, but data harmonization becomes complex and analytics purposes are hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized reporting framework as an intermediary layer between vendor-specific data sources and analytics systems. This framework translates diverse vendor formats into a common structure, enabling data harmonization without requiring changes to vendor implementations or analytics processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms vendor-specific data parameters into standardized parameters through mapping relationships. By changing the parameter representation from vendor-specific to standardized forms, the system achieves data harmonization while preserving the original vendor data characteristics.
2Productivity
If vendor native data sources are used for analytics, then data can be obtained directly from network elements, but significant time is spent harmonizing the collected data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs data standardization and harmonization in advance by establishing predefined mapping relationships between vendor-specific formats and standardized formats. This preliminary action eliminates the need for time-consuming harmonization during actual analytics processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized reporting framework acts as an intermediary that automatically translates vendor data into analytics-ready formats, eliminating manual harmonization efforts and significantly reducing the time required for data preparation.
3Ease of operation
If uncoordinated analysis of individual network elements is performed, then each element can be monitored independently, but an incomplete picture of full network performance is obtained
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual network element reports into a unified standardized report structure. By combining data from multiple independent elements using common parameters and relationships, the system provides both individual monitoring capabilities and comprehensive network performance views.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized reporting framework serves multiple functions simultaneously: it enables individual element monitoring, supports aggregated network-wide analysis, and provides a common data structure that works across different vendors and network elements.
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AI summary
There is provided an apparatus, a method and a computer program product. In accordance with an embodiment the method comprises obtaining procedure data related to a vendor specific network element of a wireless communication network; determining a a third generation partnership project (3GPP) based procedure in the obtained procedure data; generating triggering from the obtained procedure data for determining the third generation partnership project based procedure; and converting the obtained procedure data to a vendor agnostic output data according to a data model.