Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 2001, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (1): 17-21.

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Network Outage and Measurement in Telecommunications Network

ZHANG Xue-yuan1, ZHANG Jing1, LIANG Xiong-jian1, Villy B.Iversen2   

  1. 1.Business School, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China;
    2.Department of Telecommunications, Technical University of Denmark
  • Received:2000-06-01 Online:2001-01-10

Abstract: Based on the definition of network outage, it analyses the causes, which result in network outage, and its propagation mechanism. Then, it provides the characteristics of network outage and its classification. Finally, it proposes a framework of outage measurement for telecommunications network. This new framework should be practical, which need verifying in the network operation.

Key words: network outage, telecommunications network reliability, measurement framework

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