Chapter 2 - Mobile Network Outages and Degradations: As mobile network operators undertake the transition from voice-oriented to data-oriented, they are becoming increasingly vulnerable to new types of data networking outages. This is due to the growing complexity of the mobile network as it becomes increasingly IP based. Judging by the way mobile network outages are covered in the media and social media nowadays, the mobile network already seems to be more vulnerable to sudden, large-scale outages than it used to be. Smartphone users today are much more dependent on their devices than they were to their simpler phones five or ten years ago. As a result, mobile network outages and degradations create a great deal more pain and frustration today …show more content…
Pinpointing the location and specific misconfigured parameters is time consuming, and usually requires skilled, high-cost network support personnel. Because service issues span multiple technologies, such as RAN and backhaul networks, input from multiple subject matter experts is often required (8). Types of Network Outages: Most operators acknowledge some level of challenge in identifying the root cause of outages. Due to varying levels of investment and operational competence, some operators can identify most causes of incidents quite quickly, whereas others can take much longer. Physical link failures, network congestion/overloads and network failures as the most common causes of network outages by far. Some of the specific causes for outages are chip failures in network equipment, overheating due to broken air conditioning, board faults in network equipment, power outages and transmission equipment not working, bad weather can also have a big effect on the equipment on the tower. The Heavy analysis survey referenced earlier asked a number of operators what they considered were the most common cause of network
Cellular communications is such a large aspect of today’s industries, and with the number of consumers already with cell phones drastically increasing all the time, it is good to think about the future, and maybe making the customers you already have, happy and content. There are only so many “new” customers you can gain in today’s market. Phone
hit by a bus. To mitigate this, hire additional resources or cross train resources to handle the system/hardware as a backup function in the even he/she is
Networks specialist use ping, trace route and tcpdump to find the exact bug rising factor in a system. But this type of monitoring techniques fails when the number of switches in the system increases. This type techniques fail in three reasons,
Understand why a certain link or network is not functioning as per performance specifications and will be able to successfully resolve them.
Since telecom networks must be always on, it is critical to guarantee network service availability with the minimum amount of resources. In this paper, we presented XXX, our approach to provisioning availability in NFV. XXX provides a suite for service providers to concisely describe a data center topology and estimate the downtime distribution of a mapped SFC request. To reduce the running time of XXX, we further proposed an optimization framework which estimates the minimum amount of backup resources required to meet heterogeneous availability requirements and showed an heuristic solution with a theoretical bound. Through evaluation with data from production data centers, we demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of our solutions. For the future work, we are expanding our optimization framework to enable expedited estimations of the backup resource needed under other models of VNF. On the other hand, the downtime estimation accuracy is heavily dependent on the accuracy of the failure and repair distribution of each layer, including both hardware and software. Therefore it is important to analyze system log data, extract and model them using appropriate general
Availability keeps data and resources available for authorized use, especially during emergencies or disasters. This policy will address common challenges to availability. Denial of Service this is due to intentional attacks or because of undiscovered flaws in implementation. The policy will address loss of information system capabilities because of natural disasters. The policy will also focus on equipment failures during normal use.
contains the case narrative, related figures, and a set of questions and problems. These do not have one unique solution. There are too many alternatives when dealing with LANs, WANs, MANs, BNs, and the Internet, so a reallife network design and development problem can have several workable answers.
Any network dependent enterprise should have procedures and process in place that facilitate quick fixture of problems in the network. It gets all the more important in the case of a sensitive industry like the healthcare institution - Being able to fix and troubleshoot problems faster could define the life and death of the patients
When a customer is trying to conduct business in which their revenue depends on the reliability of providing stable internet and voice services, but the company that is providing them these services continually experiences outages in this customer's area, this type of chain reaction causes a dissatisfied customer. WRC's clients who experience continuous, All Service Down (ASD) outages for several hours a day run the risk of losing a significant amount of money. Often due to the geographical area, some of the cables becomes corroded or submerged in water which results in repeat service interruption for consumers in a zone. Due to the area, it becomes extremely costly to replace these cables. Therefore the organization takes the risk of
The research paper will also include the analysis of mobility between systems working on 3GPP and non 3GPP standards. Mobile operators are working on Network Densification by deploying
Power failure cause contributed to range of communications failures. Communication services were suspended. Some communication infrastructures were swept away by the tsunami. As much as 1.5 million telephone customers were without services
The emerging concept of mobile edge-clouds equips cellular network entities (such as basestations) with servers, so that users can run cloud services with significantly lower latency [2]. The introduction of femtocells allows users to buy their own cellular network devices based on their needs, thereby reducing the operators’ expenditure and improving the network coverage [3]. All these trends point to the same direction. That is, in the future, there will be more businesses operating on a single networked platform, and the interactions between them will become increasingly complex. The tradition that does not change however is that, due to physical limitations, the amount of resources (such as communication bandwidth, computational capability of servers, electricity, etc.) in the system remains limited.
In recent years the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in UK and the rest of the world have seen an exponential increase in the data consumption over their networks. This is due to the success of what is called “Mobile Broadband” contracts for laptops, which consume 100 times more data than a normal mobile device, the appearance of high-end smartphones which consume 8 times more data than a normal
If any server like the file, print etc. fail then the whole network is affected. If any hardware fails the nodes cannot be used.
I started gaining research experience during my undergraduate program after taking a networking course. Then, with my personal studies on routing and switching, I established a serious interest and anxiety to know why our campus lab’s network was always down. It was a serious research issue because I bent on knowing the cause of the problems and possible solutions to solve such problems. It was then that I discovered that the problem in our University Campus network had to do with security issues and network overload, delays were introduced during packet transactions. The network was built on a flat architecture where every node in the whole network communicates on a single channel. The Campus Lab network had one broadcast domain, and