Method and apparatus for predicting transmission system errors and failures

Abstract From the Canadian patent

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 failures 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 to yield, a set of predictions, each representing the predicted number of errors or failures during each non-uniform interval. The predictions from the neural network are then thresholded by a control unit and used to raise an …