Patent ID: 9565583
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A monitoring device comprising: a processor that executes a process including: transmitting to a plurality of base stations, instructions on mutual monitoring among the base stations; receiving from a base station that has detected abnormality of a base station serving as a monitoring target in accordance with the instruction among the base stations, information indicating a base station determined as having abnormality; and determining a level of a fault that has occurred in the base station indicated by the information received at the receiving, wherein the instructions include a list of base stations to be monitored by the base stations and a monitoring period, the list registers the base stations to be monitored such that the base stations to be monitored slightly differ for each of the base stations that perform monitoring, and the list is designed such that all of the base stations have equal monitoring load in an entire monitoring system.