A method of monitoring state of a telecommunications network

    公开(公告)号:GB2386287A

    公开(公告)日:2003-09-10

    申请号:GB0214520

    申请日:2002-06-24

    Abstract: The present invention is to a method of monitoring state of a telecommunications network, and to a telecommunications network comprising a complexity determinator. The network comprises a plurality of nodes, each node is at a time on one of a number of node states dependent upon a predetermined set of rules and local conditions at the node. The method/ complexity determinator comprises determining the value of a parameter dependent upon entropy (which is a measure of how random the system behaviour is) of the node states in the network. The present invention provides entropy based complexity measurement for behaviour analysis of self organising telecommunications networks. Specifically, the application of the entropy-based complexity measure in telecommunications networks is useful to examine behaviours of localised distributed algorithms (LDA), (operative at Base Station levels and uses only local information and simple local rules at the Base Stations). The behaviour of self-organising LDA networks can thus be investigated to determine network-wide trends. The complexity measurement is used for setting the size of the Base Station cells.

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