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Integration tasks in modern telecommunication network management system

The Misuse Detection System

in Comarch ESB technology

The Misuse Detection System Concept Integration Aspects

The increasing complexity of telecommunication hard- The MDS system’s core functionality, its self-learning
ware and services has resulted in a flood of volumes of detection, is performed by AI-based modules created
data for telecommunication operators to analyze. Net- by the academic partners of the international consor-
work and service management centers find it difficult tium engaged in the project. Different experiences, mul-
to quickly respond to network or customer-triggered tiple technologies used and the various AI techniques
events that are buried within thousands of event re- applied all contribute to the challenging task of integra-
cords. The knowledge that lies behind apparently uncor- tion. Requirements for cross-correlation of different data
related data streams is difficult to grasp and maintain sources (such as performance and fault data) reinforce
by humans. Advanced technology based on self-learn- the need for effective architectural principles in the in-
ing mechanisms could help in this case. The solution tegration of the partners’ software modules.
would eliminate the need for expert knowledge and
rule-based approaches to the greatest possible extent Comarch, the project coordinator, also plays the role
and could also be used as a tool for preventive network of integrator in the MDS project. Comarch provides
management in the area of misuse detection. The main a scalable and reliable environment for the plugging
benefits of the comprehensive reasoning and correla- in of the dedicated misuse detection modules. The so-
tion system for telecommunication network manage- lution is based on the Comarch Enterprise Service Bus
ment include: (Comarch ESB) – a contribution to the main stream of
• Reduction of time required for the detection of new ESB implementations. Comarch’s solution utilizes well-
misuses known and recognized ESB architectural concepts im-
• Preventive network management based on predicted plemented by middleware technologies to provide basic
misuses services for complex systems through enterprise mes-
• Fast reaction to abnormal situations through problem saging and event-driven mechanisms. Comarch ESB’s
solving procedures main functional features include:
• Limitation of network infrastructure over-dimension- • Message transformations – allowing all Comarch ESB
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quality assurance (an enabled components to talk to each other through
effective use of the existing infrastructure). Comarch ESB adapters
• Reliable message delivery – support for various
The MDS project is centered on telecommunication net- implementations of messaging backbones like
work management areas like performance and fault JBossMQ, IBMWebSphereMQ etc. with the defined
management as well as fraud detection and subscrib- QoS (persistence, transactions, guaranteed delivery)
er pattern analysis. The term “misuse” has a broad in- • Flexible messaging models – synchronous, asynchro-
terpretation and means any network or customer be- nous, one-way, unicast/multicast
havior that may be considered unusual and indicates • Virtual services mechanism – separation of the integra-
various abnormal situations such as network failure tion logics from the functionality of the modules being
or fraudulent activity. The task of interpreting the dis- integrated (the virtual services dedicated only for
covered knowledge remains for those supervising the message processing are separated from a modules’
AI based outputs. services)
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FM – Fraud Management
PM – Performance Management
FM – Fault Management
BP – Business Processes GUI

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• A mass data handling mechanism – decoupling trans- • Deployment in an operator’s complex business environ-
port and transport control functions to increase the ment that contains many legacy systems.
effectiveness of large data transport
• Administration tools for the supervision of the integra- Comarch ESB is responsible for the translation of the orig-
tion mechanisms (logging, statistics etc.) inal commands from the native module interfaces to an
internally used and widely understood format. Each mod-
As detailed above, Comarch ESB integrates the AI-em- ule has its dedicated ESB plugin adapter that grants it ac-
powered modules developed with technologies rele- cess to the communication bus. The solution also makes
vant to the partners’ experience (C++, JAVA, .Net environ- use of a virtual service mechanism that allows for the cre-
ments). Additionally, the existing 3rd party OSS system ation of a kind of service processor and dispatcher. Ar-
must be integrated to share data with the solution. The chitecturally, the virtual service is consistent with stan-
following challenges have to be faced: dard ESB plugins dedicated for integrated systems. The
• Heterogeneity of operating systems GUI component is integrated through the SOAP plugin
• Heterogeneity of module interfaces in the same way as the remaining modules. All interac-
• The enormous data volumes originating from a large tions are passed through the virtual service. The flow of
mobile operator’s network the information and the architecture of the integrated
• Data originating from various operator’s systems solution are depicted in the figure above (without going
– covering a wide area of an operator’s business into such details as the invocations and responses pres-
activities and of various characteristics and formats ent in a real scenario for the sake of clarity).

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