As the researchers note in the study, lonely people tend to get more lonely over time not because of social isolation, but because they spread the feelings of loneliness across their social network.
Since you are trying to do fault isolation, to fix the problem and not the blame, any differences in the local and remote agent response times immediately identifies network slowdowns.
This article presents a searching tree based algorithm of fault location, isolation and restoration of distribution system on the basis of distribution network characteristics.