Paper Info
Title
ABSENCE: Usage-based Failure Detection in Mobile Networks
Abstract
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2789168.2790127
ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
usage-based failure detection,mobile networks,large scale,operational networks
Computer science,Computer network,Ground truth,Operator (computer programming),Usage data
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.44
19
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Binh Nguyen140.78
Zihui Ge284755.97
Jacobus E. Van Der Merwe31706217.92
He Yan4815.94
Jennifer Yates579064.51