Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2014
Session Number:COMM2
Session:
Number:COMM2-1
Management Challenges of Self-Organizing Networks
Haris Gacanin,
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Publication Date:2014-08-10
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Femtocell deployments have started with a goal to enable mobile broadband services with data rates of up to and exceeding 1 Gbps. This is very challenging task in residential and enterprise environments where the macrocell coverage is very weak or without any coverage at all. Thus, a network densification (introduction of smallcells or femtocell technology) has been proposed to cope with this problem but network management and control remains an open issue. The Broadband Forum with support from 3GPP has defined technical specification (TR-) 069 and TR-196i for 3G while TR-196i2 for 4G LTE femtocell configuration and management. 3GPP has introduced self-organizing network (SON) technical specifications (use cases) and recently, more advanced features, such as self-healing and self-optimization capabilities into LTE. This talk is trying to show SON perspectives with respect to both mobiel users as well as to network operators. Several SON architectures in multi-layer network deployments are investigated.