Supporting performance and configuration management of GTE cellular networks

  • Authors:

  • Ming Tan;Carol Lafond;Gabriel Jakobson;Gary Young

  • Affiliations:

  • GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Waltham, MA;GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Waltham, MA;GTE Laboratories, Incorporated, Waltham, MA;GTE Mobilnet, Rosewell, GA

  • Venue:
  • IAAI'96 Proceedings of the eighth annual conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

GTE Laboratories, in cooperation with GTE Mobilnet, has developed and deployed PERFFEX (PERFormance Expert), an intelligent system for performance and configuration management of cellular networks. PERFEX assists cellular network performance and radio engineers in the analysis of large volumes of cellular network performance and configuration data. It helps them locate and determine the probable causes of performance problems, and provides intelligent suggestions about how to correct them. The system combines an expert cellular network performance tuning capability with a map-based graphical user interface, data visualization programs, and a set of special cellular engineering tools. PERFEX is in daily use at more than 25 GTE Mobile Switching Centers. Since the first deployment of the system in late 1993, PERFEX has become a major GTE cellular network performance optimization tool.