IP Library Granted Patent US 10,440,594
Granted Patent B2
US 10,440,594 · App. 15/019,952 · Granted Oct 8, 2019

Quantum intraday alerting based on radio access network outlier analysis

Inventors: Ching-Fang Wang (Sammamish, WA); Shawn Dugan (Pittsburgh, PA); William Wiese (Anaheim, CA); Zhou Wu (Bellevue, WA)
Assignee: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
H04W24/04H04W24/08H04W24/10
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Patent No.
US 10,440,594
App. No.
15/019,952
Granted
Oct 8, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Determining RAN performance outlier information is disclosed. In an aspect, RAN data for a current condition can be analyzed in view of historical RAN data to determine if the current condition in atypical and represents an outlier condition. In an aspect, historically similar environments between the historical and current RAN data can allow the analysis to have increased relevance. The disclosure can employ a binary array to facilitate determining performance outlier information. In an aspect, the present disclosure can be performed in a distributed computing environment and is scalable to manage large data volumes. Performance outlier information can be employed in alerts, scheduling repair, planning hardware or software upgrades, tracking rollout of new features, etc.

Claims (34)

1. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving radio access network data of a mobile communication network comprising a radio access network device, wherein the radio access network data comprises a performance indicator value from the radio access network device, and wherein the radio access network device facilitates mobile communication via a mobile device attached to the radio access network device;

selecting historical data relevant to an analysis of the performance indicator value;

determining a performance outlier value related to the performance indicator value, wherein the determining the performance outlier value comprises determining, based on Pearson Product Moment Correlation, a correlation coefficient via a binary array embodying the performance indicator value and a historical performance indicator value of the historical data, and wherein the historical performance indicator value is related to an environmental event proximate to the radio access network; and

enabling access to information related to the performance outlier value.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the information related to the performance outlier value comprises the performance outlier value.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the determining the performance outlier value is based on historical radio access network data comprising the historical performance indicator value.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the performance indicator value and the historical performance indicator value are related by a characteristic of an operating environment of the radio access network device.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the characteristic is a temporal characteristic pertaining to a time of operation of the operating environment.

6. The device of claim 4 , wherein the characteristic is an event characteristic pertaining to an event determined to have occurred in the operating environment.

7. The device of claim 4 , wherein the characteristic is a software characteristic of the radio access network device.

8. The device of claim 4 , wherein the characteristic is a hardware characteristic of the radio access network device.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise initiating a response based on the performance outlier value, in response to the correlation coefficient being determined to transition a correlation threshold value.

10. The device of claim 9 , wherein the response is a repair response associated with repair of the radio access network device.

11. The device of claim 10 , wherein the repair response associated with repair of hardware of the radio access network device.

12. The device of claim 10 , wherein the repair response associated with alteration of software of the radio access network device.

13. The device of claim 9 , wherein the response is a planning response associated with modifying a plan related to the deployment of a radio access network comprising the radio access network device.

14. The device of claim 9 , wherein the response is an alert response associated with causing an alert related to the determining the performance outlier value.

15. The device of claim 9 , wherein the coefficient threshold value is determined employing the binary array.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, radio access network data of a mobile communication network comprising a radio access network device, wherein the radio access network data comprises a performance indicator value and a historic performance indicator value corresponding to an environmental event proximate to the radio access network device and associated with the radio access network device supporting a mobile device in the mobile communication network, wherein the performance indicator value and the historic performance indicator value are determined to satisfy a similarity rule related to a characteristic of a historical radio access network operating environment profile, and wherein the historic performance indicator value is comprised in selectable historic radio access network data;

determining, by the system based on a measure of the strength of a linear relationship between the performance indicator value and the historic performance indicator value, information related to a performance outlier via a binary array;

enabling, by the system, access to the performance outlier value information;

receiving, by the system, a performance profile comprising an updateable performance profile value; and

initiating, by the system, a response event based on the performance outlier value information satisfying a response rule related to the updateable performance profile value.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the similarity rule is related to a first temporal condition of the performance indicator value, a second temporal condition of the historic performance indicator value, and the characteristic of the historical radio access network operating environment profile is a temporal characteristic.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the initiating the response event comprises initiating a repair response related to repair of the radio access network device.

19. A machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

receiving radio access network data of a mobile communication network comprising a radio access network device, wherein the radio access network data comprises a performance indicator value and a historic performance indicator value related to an environmental event proximate to the radio access network device and associated with the radio access network device enabling mobile communication via a mobile device attached to the radio access network device, wherein the performance indicator value and the historic performance indicator value satisfy a similarity rule related to a characteristic of a historically similar radio access network operating environment profile, and wherein the historic performance indicator value is comprised in historic radio access network data that is determined to be relevant to an outlier analysis relative to the performance indicator value;

determining, by the system based on a best fit line computed from performance indicator values comprising the performance indicator value and historic performance indicator values comprising the historic performance indicator value, information related to a performance outlier value via a binary array; and

initiating, by the system, a response event based on the performance outlier value information being determined to have satisfied a trigger rule related to a trigger value.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 19 , wherein the determining the information related to the performance outlier value is performed via a distributed computing environment comprising a first computing device that processes a first computing subtask that represents a first portion of a larger computing task and a second computing device that processes a second computing subtask that represents a second portion of the larger computing task.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 19, 2016
From: WANG, CHING-FANG; DUGAN, SHAWN; WIESE, WILLIAM; WU, ZHOU
To: AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
Reel/Frame 037780/0247 →
Continuity (1)
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