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Self-organisation in Wireless Networks Use Cases and their Interrelation Dr. Werner Mohr Nokia Siemens Networks werner.mohr@nsn.com May 5, 2009 WWRF 22 Meeting Outline Introduction Drivers for self-organisation The SOCRATES

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  • Dr. Werner Mohr

Nokia Siemens Networks werner.mohr@nsn.com May 5, 2009 WWRF 22 Meeting

Self-organisation in Wireless Networks – Use Cases and their Interrelation

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Outline

  • Introduction – Drivers for self-organisation
  • The SOCRATES project
  • Self-organisation use case examples
  • Interrelation of use cases
  • Conclusions
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Drivers for Self-organisation

Technical:

  • Increasing complexity and size of mobile networks
  • Operation of several network generations in parallel
  • Paradigm shift from telco specific towards IT networking technologies

Market:

  • Increasing diversity and complexity of offered services
  • Reduced time-to-market and lifetime of services
  • Enhanced requirements on service quality

High efforts for radio Network planning and optimisation

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The SOCRATES Project

  • STREP project within the EU FP #7
  • Duration Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2010

Goals:

  • Development, Evaluation and Demonstration of methods and

algorithms for self-configuration, self-optimisation and self-healing

  • Improve network coverage, resource utilisation and service quality
  • With a focus on 3GPP E-UTRAN, investigation of impact on

standardisation, network operations and service provisioning Self-Optimisation and self- ConfiguRATion in wirelESs networks

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SOCRATES Approach

Measurements: continuous activity, collection of information from various sources (NE, UE, OAM) Self-optimisation: algorithms to intelligently process measurements and update configuration parameters Self-healing: automated fault management to resolve incidental radio and networking errors Self-configuration: for incidental events, e.g., deployment of new NEs or services Parameter settings: newly calculated / updated parameters are deployed to network elements

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SOCRATES Phases

Requirements phase:

  • Identification of use cases and requirements for self-organisation
  • Definition of a self-organisation framework (architecture, assessment

criteria for algorithm development, scenarios, operator policies etc.) Development phase:

  • Detailed solutions (methods and algorithms) for selected self-
  • rganisation use cases
  • Validation of solutions

Integration phase:

  • Integration of solutions with framework
  • Demonstration of benefits and implications of solutions
  • Dissemination of solutions (standard contrib., workshops)

Here we are

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SOCRATES Selected Use Cases

Use Case Title Self-organisation Area

Self-optimisation of Home eNodeB Self-optimisation Load Balancing Self-optimisation Interference Coordination Self-optimisation Packet Scheduling Self-optimisation Handover optimisation Self-optimisation Admission & Congestion Control Self-optimisation Coverage Hole Detection & Compensation Self-optimisation Cell Outage Management Self-healing Management of Relays & Repeaters Self-config./Self-opt. Automatic Generation of Default Parameters Self-configuration

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Outline

  • Introduction – Drivers for self-organisation
  • The SOCRATES project
  • Self-organisation use case examples
  • Interrelation of use cases
  • Conclusions
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Home eNodeB - Overview

  • Home base stations are expected to be extensively used in 3G LTE
  • Coverage / capacity extension in limited areas (office / in-house)
  • Installed by end user and physically inaccessible for operator
  • Characteristics:
  • Small coverage areas, probably few users per cell
  • May be turned on and off frequently, may be switched off and moved
  • Closed or open access
  • May operate on a separate frequency band as the macro eNodeBs

(segregated spectrum) or in the same band (shared spectrum)

Several self-organisation use cases apply for Home eNodeB, with different conditions than for macro network

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Home eNodeB – Sub Use Cases

  • Home eNodeB neighbour relations (including other HeNB and macro)
  • Detect neighbouring eNodeBs
  • Maintain and optimise neighbour cell list
  • Home eNodeB handover optimisation (HeNB – macro, HeNB – HeNB)
  • Automatically decide if handover should take place
  • Optimise handover parameters to ensure seamless mobility
  • Home eNodeB interference and coverage optimisation
  • Consider the compensation of coverage holes
  • Consider influence on macro network in case the same band is used
  • Consider tradeoff between interference and coverage
  • Home eNodeB initialisation and configuration
  • Connection to operator network
  • Define appropriate settings for integration into running network

Selected Selected

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Home eNodeB - Approach

Measurements, e.g. UE Reference Signal Received Power / Quality UE last visited cells (UE history), UE Packet loss / delay eNodeB Downlink Reference Signal Transmit Power, call drop ratio Operator Policies, e.g. Provide coverage, provide a guaranteed service Relieve load from macro cells, with keeping impact on macro network performance low (e.g. handover ping-pong effects, interference) Commercial / marketing Configuration Parameters, e.g. Uplink / downlink power settings Handover offsets, favouring / discriminating particular cells

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Load Balancing - Overview

  • Problem: unequal user distribution, with heavily loaded cells in vicinity of

lightly loaded cells

  • Goal: detect and compensate load imbalance between cells to
  • Improve resource utilisation
  • Improve Quality / Grade of Service for end users
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Load Balancing - Status

  • Only load balancing within LTE system is regarded
  • Triggers:
  • Overloaded cell

Load > Y (close to 100%)

  • QoS improvement

Load < Y but higher than in neighbour cells

  • Energy saving

Load << 1 (very low load)

Load Time Y X Do nothing Reports LB Handover Thres- holds Energy saving

Z

  • Thresholds:
  • Keep LB message

size and frequency low

  • Set load thresholds

to trigger LB functionalities

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Load Balancing – Solution Approach

  • Load balancing only

works for capacity driven networks with sufficient cell

  • verlaying
  • Besides HO of UEs to

neighbouring cells, adjustment of cell size & coverage (transmitter power or antenna params.) are possible solutions

Simplified Load Balancing algorithm

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Cell Outage Management – Overview

  • Goal: minimise network performance degradation in case of outage
  • Reasons for cell outage:
  • Hardware / software failures (e.g., radio board failure, channel processing

implementation error, etc.)

  • External failures (e.g., power supply or network connectivity failures)
  • Erroneous Configuration
  • Operator optimisation goals for outage compensation:
  • Achieve the best coverage possible
  • Provide the highest accessibility
  • Deliver the best possible quality in the outage area and surrounding cells

Not all goals can be reached at the same time, they need to be weighted according to quality, coverage, or capacity policies

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Cell Outage Management – Solution Approach

Measurements

Outage Detection Outage Compensation

Parameters

Continuous and event-triggered measurements (counters, timers, alarms, KPIs, radio measurements) from various sources (OAM, eNodeBs, UEs) Physical channel settings (e.g. power settings) Antenna parameters (tilt, azimuth, multi-ant. techniques) Home eNodeB for compensation or to reduce interference Outage scenarios: sleeping site / sector, site / sector failure, transport link failure Which surrounding cells are to be taken into account Compensation scenarios: large cells coverage, high- capacity cells accessibility, service quality Estimation of compensation results using “X-map”, “X” = coverage, accessibility, packet loss, throughput etc.

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Cell Outage Management – Solution Approach

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Measurements Control Parameters

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Outline

  • Introduction – Drivers for self-organisation
  • The SOCRATES project
  • Self-organisation use case examples
  • Interrelation of use cases
  • Conclusions
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Interrelation of Use Cases

  • Each self-organsiation use case modifies a set of configuration

Parameters (dedicated configuration setting) in the corresponding network elements to achieve the intended self-configuration, self-

  • ptimisation or self-healing Goals (high-level target of self-organisation)
  • Several use cases are running in parallel, and therefore several self-
  • ptimisation functionalities may alter the same configuration parameters

Allover system performance may depend on conflictive parameter adjustments Interaction of self-organisation functionalities needs to be analysed, to identify functionalities that need to be coordinated

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Configuration Parameter Grouping - Example

Parameter Group B

Goal A Goal B Goal C Parameter Contributor Relation (correlation between high-level goal and given parameter)

Parameter Group A

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Goals and Parameters - Examples

Goal Parameters Minimise interference

  • Radio bearer transmit power
  • Radio bearer assignment
  • Antenna parameters
  • Channel quality indicator

thresholds for schemes switching Balance load

  • Radio bearer transmit power
  • Antenna parameters
  • Handover parameters
  • Cell re-selection parameters

Maximise / Optimise coverage

  • Radio bearer transmit power
  • Antenna parameters
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Conclusions

  • Each single use case requires considerable effort regarding
  • Analysis of input data, measurements, and configuration parameters
  • Development of solution algorithms and deployment scenarios
  • Evaluation of impact to OAM and RAN architecture
  • Self-organisation is to be regarded as a whole
  • Use cases are not independent of each other regarding their influence
  • n the system configuration and parameters
  • Self-organisation goals have to be defined as system goals, and these

system goals have to be broken down to the single use case goals

  • For the development of self-organisation solutions, the solutions of

single use-cases have to be coordinated and integrated

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Contact

SOCRATES Project Website: www.fp7-socrates.org Authors of WWRF 22 contribution:

L.C. SCHMELZ (Nokia Siemens Networks, Munich, Germany) J.L. VAN DEN BERG, R. LITJENS (TNO ICT, Delft, The Netherlands)

  • M. AMIRIJOO, K. ZETTERBERG (Ericsson, Linköping, Sweden)
  • K. SPAEY, I. BALAN (IBBT, Gent-Ledeberg, Belgium)
  • N. SCULLY (Vodafone, Newbury, United Kingdom)
  • S. STEFANSKI (Nokia Siemens Networks, Wroclaw, Poland)

Contact:

  • Dr. Werner Mohr

Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG 80240 München Germany werner.mohr@nsn.com Lars Christoph Schmelz Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co. KG 80240 München Germany lars.schmelz@nsn.com