Contents
1 Operating Mobile Broadband Networks
1.1. The Challenge of Mobile Traffic Growth
1.2. Capacity and Coverage Crunch
1.3. Meeting the Challenge – the Network Operator Toolkit
1.4. Self-Organizing Networks (SON)
1.5. Summary and Book Contents
2 The Self-Organizing Networks (SON) Paradigm
2.1. Motivation and Targets from NGMN*
2.3. SON versus Radio Resource Management
2.5. SON in the Research Community
3.1. Drivers for Multi-Technology SON
3.2. Architectures for Multi-Technology SON
4 Multi-Technology Self-Planning
4.1. Self-Planning Requirements for 2G, 3G and LTE
4.2. Cross-Technology Constraints for Self-Planning
4.3. Self-Planning as an Integrated Process
4.4. Planning versus Optimization
4.5. Information Sources for Self-Planning
4.6. Automated Capacity Planning
4.7. Automated Transmission Planning
4.8. Automated Site Selection and RF Planning
4.9. Automated Neighbor Planning
4.10. Automated Spectrum Planning for GSM/GPRS/EDGE
4.11. Automated Planning of 3G Scrambling Codes
4.12. Automated Planning of LTE Physical Cell Identifiers
5 Multi-Technology Self-Optimization
5.1. Self-Optimization Requirements for 2G, 3G and LTE