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ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks

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ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks
We present our proposed ABSENCE system which detects service disruptions in mobile networks using aggregated customer usage data. ABSENCE monitors aggregated customer usage to detect when aggregated usage is lower than expected in a given geographic region (e.g., zip code), across a given customer device type, or for a given service. Such a drop in expected usage is interpreted as a sign of a potential service disruption being experienced in that region / device type / service. ABSENCE effectively deals with users’ mobility and scales to detect failures in various mobile services (e.g., voice, data, SMS, MMS, etc). We perform a systematic evaluation of our proposed approach by introducing synthetic failures in measurements obtained from a US operator. We also compare our results with ground truth (real service disruptions) obtained from the mobile operator. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.3 [Network Operations]: Network monitoring, Network management Keywords usage-based fail...
Binh Nguyen, Zihui Ge, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, H
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Type Journal
Year 2015
Where MOBICOM
Authors Binh Nguyen, Zihui Ge, Jacobus E. van der Merwe, He Yan, Jennifer Yates
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