Managing self-organizing radio access networks

Self-X RAN: Autonomous self organizing radio access networks

Current situation for radio access network management Deployment and maintenance become more and more complex and cost extensive Trend to smaller cells, multi-band operation, heterogeneous mobile networks High manual intervention for configuration, capacity upgrade or in failure cases required High effort required for optimisation of system performance Deep system expertise required High effort...

Mobile radio access network monitoring using the self-organizing map

"MeshUp": Self-organizing mesh-based topologies for next generation radio access networks

The phenomenal growth in wireless technologies has brought about a slew of new services. Incumbent with the new technology is the challenge of providing flexible, reconfigurable, self-organizing architectures which are capable of catering to the dynamics of the network, while providing cost-effective solutions for the service providers. In this paper, we focus on mesh-based multi-hop access net...

Self-Organizing Packet Radio Ad Hoc Networks with Overlay (SOPRANO)

The SOPRANO project involves a novel adaptive and scalable wireless network architecture utilizing a mixture of cellular and multihop packet radio system topologies with the potential to support a variety of applications including high-datarate Internet and multimedia traffic at a reasonable degree of implementation complexity. This article discusses the potential benefits of this structure and...

Self Organizing Device Networks

In order for simple, initially identical computational units to acquire unique identities, two ingredients are needed: a physical symmetry breaking mechanism and a distributed algorithm that makes use of this mechanism. After brie y considering non-thermodynamic sources of symmetry breaking, I return to thermodynamic symmetry breaking, and present three algorithms that make use of this source. ...