Use Cases, Requirements and Assessment Criteria for Future Self-Organising Radio Access Networks

  • Authors:
  • Mehdi Amirijoo;Remco Litjens;Kathleen Spaey;Martin Döttling;Thomas Jansen;Neil Scully;Ulrich Türke

  • Affiliations:
  • Ericsson, Linköping, Sweden;TNO ICT, Delft, The Netherlands;IBBT, Antwerp, Belgium;Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany;TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;Vodafone, Newbury, United Kingdom;Atesio, Berlin, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IWSOS '08 Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Self-organisation (self-optimisation, self-configuration, and self-healing) methods are a promising concept to automate wireless access network planning, deployment and optimisation. This paper contains a mind setting exercise. First the mechanisms for which self-organisation is anticipated to be effective and feasible are identified. Then technical and non-technical requirements that need to be taken into account for the successful development of self-organisation functionalities are discussed. Furthermore, a set of metrics and appropriate reference cases (benchmarks) are presented, which allow to do on one hand a quantitative comparison of the different algorithms developed for a given use case, and on the other hand to evaluate the gains from self-organisation by comparing self-organisation solutions with the case of manual network operations.