THIN CLIENT FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE

Monitoring the telecom infrastructure reflects not only a technical perspective but also a business perspective, highlighting, besides possible technical issues, the network areas that need improvements or investments. This paper describes the method for tele-monitoring of communication infrastructure responsible for switching and signaling in the mobile converged core network. The application allows the display of real-time information on a thin client. Thus, decisions related to infrastructure (resource management, optimizations, redeployments) can be taken based on notifications received on a mobile device (e.g. an Android smartphone) Network operators are dealing with the challenge of reducing operational expenses OPEX and optimize the functionality of distributed infrastructure, within fast response times or methods to predict and avoid network issues, through automatic maintenance solutions. The purpose of the implementations presented in this paper is to obtain a remote monitoring solution that provides mobility and which has an interface accessible to any user. The user has access to data wherever they are, as long as an Internet connection is available. The scope of the implemented demonstrator is to obtain an intuitive system, easy to set up and use, with the possibility of further development, while providing a very good perfor mance / price ratio. The user has the possibility to view graphs that highlight errors, can analyze detailed view of logs and can perform real-time monitoring of the activities of system responsible with backup actions. Data communication between the server and the Android application is achieved through REST Web services ("Representational State Transfer") (1). The multiplicity of standards and protocols used in the Internet have made possible the communication between two or more systems connected to the Internet that is a distance from one another. Industry software development, architectural models based on web services are seen increasingly more often, offering numerous advantages, especially when used together with an DAO ( "Data Access Objects")(2) type architecture that brings an innovation in the interpretation of data and modeling of data objects. This concept will be detailed later, with examples related to the demonstrations.