US 12,237,972 B2
Method of operating a telecommunications network
Andrew Corston-Petrie, London (GB); Ruth Brown, London (GB); and Jonathan Hart, London (GB)
Assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
Appl. No. 18/548,176
Filed by BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY, London (GB)
PCT Filed Feb. 18, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/054136
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 28, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/184476, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 9, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2102850 (GB), filed on Mar. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0146607 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. H04L 41/084 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/084 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method of operating a telecommunications network, said telecommunications network comprising a plurality of nodes, and the method comprising the steps of:
storing:
a set of historic reconfiguration instructions, said instructions having been used to reconfigure the telecommunications network;
first status information from each of the plurality of nodes, wherein said first status information is received prior to reconfiguring the telecommunications network according to a given historic reconfiguration instruction; and
second status information from each of the plurality of nodes, wherein said second status information is received after reconfiguring the telecommunications network according to the given historic reconfiguration instruction;
receiving a new reconfiguration instruction;
prior to reconfiguring the telecommunications network according to the new reconfiguration instruction, identifying, from the set, a similar historic reconfiguration instruction having a similarity to the new reconfiguration instruction within a tolerance threshold;
comparing the first and the second status information associated with the identified similar historic reconfiguration instruction so as to determine whether the identified similar historic reconfiguration instruction resulted in a detrimental effect to performance of the telecommunications network;
in dependence on whether the identified similar historic reconfiguration instruction resulted in a detrimental effect, calculating a success confidence metric for the new reconfiguration instruction, said metric representing a probability that a reconfiguration instruction does not result in a detrimental effect to performance of the telecommunications network; and
if the success confidence metric is:
greater than a predetermined threshold value, reconfiguring the telecommunications network according to the new reconfiguration instruction; or
less than a predetermined threshold value, preventing reconfiguration of the telecommunications network according to the new reconfiguration instruction.