Abstract:
Systems and techniques for antenna optimization are described. Information such as statistics relating to conditions are collected, and evaluated against specified criteria in an iterative process. An antenna tilt decision is made based on the evaluation and validated to determine if it should be retained or repeated, or if the tilt should be returned to a previous state.
Abstract:
There is provided a method and an apparatus for determining an adjustment of a tilt angle (α1, α2) for a beam emitted from an antenna (130) of a base station (100) which is serving a vertically sectorized cell (150) of a cellular radio telecommunication network. The method comprises (a) configuring user equipments (162, 164) being located in the vertically sectorized cell (150) with dedicated measurements, (b) collecting the dedicated measurements for a specific time interval, (c) obtaining a spatial user equipment distribution among a first sector (152) of the cell (150) and a second sector (154) of the cell (150) based on the collected dedicated measurements, (d) ascertaining an optimized spatial overlap region between the first sector (152) and the second sector (154) based on the obtained spatial user equipment distribution, and (e) determining the adjustment of the tilt angle (α1, α2) based on the ascertained optimized spatial overlap region.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for detecting and determining the location of a coverage hole in a communications network such as a cellular communication system wherein the location is determined from operational parameters and/or by network elements themselves. Additionally is a method to reduce a hole by adjusting antennae parameters preferably remotely and automatically and this can be done in conjunction with hole location to optimize the system.
Abstract:
A method of operating a communication network comprising a verification component is provided, wherein the method comprises achieving at the verification component a verification plan defining a verification process associated with a specific network operation; and executing the verification plan after deploying the specific network operation.
Abstract:
A method comprises receiving at least one of a) usage condition information relating to one or more usage conditions of a user equipment and b) network performance information; and using said information to cause a change in one or more parameters which individually control a or said user equipment, said parameters being radio resource management parameters.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method including receiving, from an application or function, information indicating at least one of: one or more actions performed or predicted to be performed by the application or function, or one or more key performance indicators indicating an impact or predicted impact of the one or more actions, the one or more actions causing a change in at least one of: communication traffic associated with the one or more base stations, or power consumption of the one or more base stations or one or more subcomponents of the one or more base stations; determine, based at least partly on the received information, one or more virtual power plant actions or one or more peak shaving actions associated with at least one base station; and initiate the one or more virtual power plant actions or the one or more peak shaving actions.
Abstract:
A method for policy management in a network comprises collecting data relating to one or more active user equipment in the network, processing said data, and responsive to said processing determining if policy management provided by a policy function of the network with respect to a respective user equipment is to be changed.