Patent ID: 8526299
Filing Date: 2013-09-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for processing cell out-of-service failures, the method including: monitoring and receiving cell outage faults; analyzing causes and contents of the received cell outage fault; determining according to the causes and contents of the fault whether the cell out-of-service is caused due to a malfunction of any hardware; when it is a non-hardware malfunction, then attempting to recover the cell, and then ending the cell recovering process; when it is a malfunction of the hardware, then checking configuration information, acquiring related hardware objects of the current cell, and finding whether there is a fault related to a hardware object; when there is a fault related to the hardware object, then determining according to the type of the hardware object whether the hardware object is replaceable; when there is a replaceable hardware object, then attempting to recover the cell; when there is no replaceable hardware object, or if there is no fault related to the hardware object, or the recovering attempt fails, determining, according to a coverage type of the cell, whether the cell requires compensation; when no compensation is required, then recording the result of automatic recovering or reporting the result of processing the fault to an upper level; when compensation is required, then sending a cell blocking request to block the failed cell, backing current configuration parameters of the cell up, then generating configuration parameters related to the cell compensation and delivering them to the network element devices, and recording the result of automatic recovering or reporting the result of processing the fault to an upper level, and then ending the current recovering process, wherein the determining, according to the coverage type of the cell, whether the cell requires compensation includes: if making no compensation would result in a signal blind area, determining that cell requires compensation; otherwise, determining that the cell does not require compensation.