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SON (Self-Organizing Network)

Motorola SON (Self-Organizing Network)

Motorola’s Self-Organizing Network is an LTE network that can automatically extend, change, configure and optimize the network coverage, capacity, cell size, topology, and frequency allocation and bandwidth, based on changes in interference, signal strength, location, traffic pattern, and other environment criteria.

SON minimizes the operation costs of running a network by reducing and eliminating manual configuration of network operational parameters at the time of network planning, network deployment, network operations, and network optimization while fitting into the existing operational processes and procedures that are currently in place today.

Management of the Motorola SON solution is coordinated through Motorola’s LTE Manager EMS solution.



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The Motorola Self Organizing Network solution is a revolutionary approach for OPEX reduction, designed to reduce operating costs by simplifying the management of the LTE network. The overall goal of the Motorola SON solution is to reduce costs and increase productivity around the existing standard O&M activities and processes already used today by mobile operators. The Motorola SON solution easily fits in with existing 2G and 3G OSS workflows while automating many tasks that were previously manual activities, reducing the need for extra personal to operate the LTE network.
Within Motorola SON solution, network elements are self-aware, self-configurating, auto-optimizing, and self-diagnosing, so human activity can be focused on network design and growth. As defined by the LTE standard, the SON capability can be broken into four distinct Network Operating Support System areas:
• Network Planning
• Network Deployment
• Network Operations
• Network Optimization

Motorola brings to SON our years of research in network autonomics and the added real-world experience of planning, deploying, managing and optimizing commercial OFDM networks. This wealth of expertise has been leveraged in our SON implementation, helping us provide unique capabilities and features as well as optimized algorithms that take into account the knowledge gained from commercial OFDM mobile broadband networks:
• Distributed SON Architecture designed to reduce SON implementation costs
• Experience driven knowledge base and algorithms built on years of multi-vendor intelligent optimization services
• Technology innovation knowledge base driven by extensive modeling and simulation activities

Motorola’s O&M environment offers offline planning capabilities that walk the customer through capacity and coverage adjustments scenarios for their network based on uploading their current network topology from the LTE Manager. All of the SON principals are applied to the planning network, including processes such as neighbor cell list addition, optimization, handover parameter optimization, interference control, and QoS parameter optimization. Also specified are the needed hardware configurations and licenses required to order the necessary capacity expansion. The Network Planning capability can allow the output of the tool to be used to reconfigure the network.