Towards Taxonomy of Telecommunication Network Metrics

The metrics and measurements play a crucial role in the whole lifecycle of telecommunication networks. The number of metrics being considered for modern telecommunication systems supporting digital or computing infrastructures has grown exponentially. It requires sophisticated systems for the metrics management which are under development by the industry consortia. For many research tasks, it would be sufficient to identify a relatively small number of recommended metrics to achieve more consistent evaluations of the system performance. There are still many unsolved problems in this area including defining the optimum modeling strategies and the metrics optimality. This paper explores a landscape of the most commonly used telecommunication and computing metrics to illuminate what metrics are available.