METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTING TRANSMISSION SYSTEM ERRORS AND FAILURES

摘要

Errors or failures in a transmission system can be accurately predicted by a system which processes error or failure data collected by the transmission system during uniform intervals to yield data indicative of the errors or failur es during each of a plurality of non-uniform, overlapping intervals. The errors or failures measured during the non-uniform intervals are selectively weighted and summed within a neural network, trained with historical error or failure data, t o yield a set of predictions, each representing the predicted number of errors or failur es during each non-uniform interval. The predictions from the neural network are th en thresholded by a control unit and used to raise an alarm which signals the possi bility of error or failure in the transmission system.