ML-Based Fault Management Automation in Large-Scale Fixed and Mobile Telecommunication NetworksShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, E-ISSN 1932-4537, Vol. 22, no 2, p. 1775-1787Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Many network faults are flooding the telecommunication companies in the form of Trouble Tickets (TT). Automation in managing these TTs is vital in increasing customer satisfaction. We develop a solution to address two challenges regarding TTs generated from fixed and mobile access network domains: prediction of resolution times and technician dispatch needs. Our study utilizes datasets from Telenor, a Swedish telecommunication operator, encompassing 35,000 access switches and 8,000 base stations. It incorporates 40,000 switch TTs and 22,000 mobile TTs during 2019-2023. None of the previous works studied multiple telecommunication domains or considered the time evolution of TTs. This work comprehensively studies several prediction models for the mentioned use cases and network domains. Our models successfully outperform the company baseline and best proposed state-of-the-art models. Within 1-hour confidence interval, our method can correctly predict shortest ranges of resolution times for 90% of switch TTs and 80% of mobile TTs. We also predict the necessity of dispatching workforce to the place with weighted F1 scores of respectively, 88% and 89% for switch and mobile TTs which shows high average accuracy of our system in prediction across both dispatch and non-dispatch TT classes to assist operation. With these scores, our model is capable of allocating resources automatically, enhancing customer satisfaction. We also studied the TTs evolution, for example, for switch TTs, within 15 minutes of creation time, prediction improves by 57% and 50%, for resolution and dispatch prediction, respectively.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2025. Vol. 22, no 2, p. 1775-1787
Keywords [en]
Base stations, Automation, Predictive models, Knowledge engineering, Data models, Companies, Neural networks, Measurement, Accuracy, Support vector machines, Trouble tickets, mobile network, fixed network, fault management, resolution time prediction, dispatch-need prediction, machine learning models
National Category
Computer Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-364232DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3509636ISI: 001473161100015Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85211352921OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-364232DiVA, id: diva2:1965654
Note
QC 20250609
2025-06-092025-06-092025-07-16Bibliographically approved