Architectural Design and Test Case Analysis of a Simulator for Failure Localization

Pin-Han Ho

¹Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave W, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada

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This paper presents the design and implementation of a simulator comprising the following components: a rule database, a topology generator, a failure generator, and an alarm generator. The topology generator produces network topologies to simulate various network conditions, while the failure generator generates simulated failures. Subsequently, the alarm generator utilizes the rule database to generate corresponding alarm data. The generated data structures include failures/alarms, alarm flows, alarm chains, and alarm correlation trees. Furthermore, a test case is introduced to validate the accuracy of the simulator.

Optical Transport Network (OTN), Failure Localization, OTN-based Simulator

Xiangzhu Lu, Yan Jiao, and Pin-Han Ho (2024). Architectural Design and Test Case Analysis of a Simulator for Failure Localization. Journal of Networking and Network Applications, Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 73–80. https://doi.org/10.33969/J-NaNA.2024.040203.

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