Lucent Technologies Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Alcatel-lucent USA Inc.

Xuemei Zhang

Eric Jonathan Bauer

Peter Bosch

Kazem Anaraky Sohraby

Daniel R Jeske

Omar Salvador

Douglas A Kimber

Abhaya Asthana

Paul Hampton Franklin

James C Clark

The invention includes a method and apparatus for reconfiguring a first base station element to attempt to serve at least a portion of the plurality of wireless terminals served by a second base station element in response to detection of a failure condition at a second base station element that was serving the plurality of wireless terminals prior to the occurrence of the failure condition.

Method and apparatus for improving wireless network reliability

The invention includes a method for predicting a scheduled downtime associated with a system. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a system model associated with the system according to a system type of the system, determining at least one scheduled system downtime event type associated with the system using the system model, selecting at least one scheduled system downtime event model according to the at least one scheduled system downtime event type, and predicting the scheduled system downtime using the at least one scheduled system downtime event model.

Method and apparatus for predicting scheduled system downtime

A method and system for improving the reliability of a system, such as a software system, is disclosed. 'Service measurements' that are routinely measured and monitored in connection with the operation of systems (e.g., QOS (Quality Of Service) measurements) are utilized in the reliability architecture of the system. Service measurements include a number of alternative data types, such as transactions completed, messages received, messages sent, calls completed, bytes transmitted, jobs processed, etc. Any operations of the system that are typically monitored for other purposes can be utilized in the reliability architecture of the present invention. Most systems track these types of statistics as, for example, part of their billing procedures or part of their performance bench-marking or QOS processes. Since these statistics are already kept, it is very simple to analyze the statistics to create the historical signatures, and then monitor the statistics of the currently operating system to perform the signature checking process.

Method, system and computer program product for improving system reliability

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Xuemei Zhang