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Automatic Configuration Management (CM) parameter change assessment, the so-called Self-Organizing Network (SON) verification, is an important enabler for stable and high-quality modern mobile communication networks. However, it also presents a new set of challenges. While improving network stability and resolving unexpected conflicts caused by parallel configuration changes, SON verification can...
Ultra-Dense Networks (UDNs) are Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) that deploy a high density of small cells over-laying the traditional macro cells. If several Long Term Evolution (LTE) layers share the available spectrum, assigning the Physical Cell Identities (PCIs) becomes complicated due to the density and the diversity of the network. Since different layers can be managed by different Network...
The verification of configuration management (CM) changes is an essential operation in a mobile self-organizing network (SON). Usually, a verification approach operates in three steps: it divides the network into verification areas, triggers an anomaly detection algorithm for those areas, and finally generates CM undo requests for the abnormally performing ones. Those requests set CM parameters to...
In a mobile Self-Organizing Network (SON), the SON coordinator has been introduced to control the application of Configuration Management (CM) changes, in order to prevent conflicts between independent SON function instances running in parallel. However, there is always a trade-off between stability and efficiency. On one hand we need to avoid conflicts, on the other we want fast, parallelized execution...
The verification of Configuration Management (CM) changes has become an important step in the operation of a mobile Self-Organizing Network (SON). Typically, a verification mechanism operates in three phases. At first, it partitions the network into verification areas, then it triggers an anomaly detection algorithm for those areas, and finally generates CM undo requests for the abnormally performing...
In today's Self-Organizing Networks (SONs) we differentiate between closed-loop functions, which have a predefined absolute goal, and such that form an action plan that achieves a high expected utility. Both function types perform changes to Configuration Management (CM) parameters, but only the second type may re-adapt the action plan in order to maximize the utility. A SON verification approach...
There is a major demand for reducing energy consumption in mobile networks and it is expected become even more vital in the future (5G) multi-layer Ultra Dense Networks (UDNs), in which the number and density of cells in the different layers will grow dramatically. In these networks, multiple geographically overlapping layers are deployed to increase the capacity and throughput, but also increasing...
Increased demand for higher user throughput has led to deployment of multi-layer networks commonly called heterogeneous networks (Hetnets). Therein, small cells are deployed alongside traditional macro cells, in many cases on the same spectrum. Such scenarios complicate the configuration of network parameters such as the Physical Cell Identity (PCI). A number of approaches have as such been proposed...
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