Abstract:

In thiS work, we present the framework of an expert system that will be 
capable of diagnosing and predicting faults in a cable television plant. 
The structure of the diagnostic expert system under development comprises
equipment specific and network specific parts. 
For the equipment specific part, there exist well established diagnosis 
and calibration procedures. These are captured and integrated into an 
equipment specific knowledge based diagnosis system with the aid of 
specifically designed knowledge acquisition system. 
The network Itself iS monitored in real time, and its status data are 
used to determine failure points and the likely cause of the failure.