Integration of service-level monitoring with fault management for end-to-end multi-provider Ethernet services

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-38

  Varga, Pál ^a   Moldován, István ^a  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Active investigation checks; End to end Ethernet services; Fault management; Petri nets; Root cause analysis; Service level monitoring

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ETHERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; PETRI NETS; STANDARDIZATION;

ACTIVE INVESTIGATION CHECKS; END-TO-END ETHERNET SERVICES; FAULT MANAGEMENT; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS;

NETWORK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34547886506     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2007.030103     Document Type: Article

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