June 16-18, 2010: SOCRATES demonstration stand at the Future Network & MobileSummit 2010 Exhibition. Five demonstrations on Self-Organising Networks (SON) use cases were shown: 1. Load balancing; 2. Handover parameter optimisation; 3. Cell outage compensation; 4. Automatic generation of default parameters for eNodeB insertion; 5. X-map estimation.
The Socrates Project
Future communication networks will exhibit a significant degree of self-organisation. The principal objective of introducing self-organisation, comprising self-optimisation, self-configuration and self-healing, is to effectuate substantial operational expenditure (OPEX) reductions by diminishing human involvement in network operational tasks, while optimising network efficiency and service quality.
The SOCRATES (Self-Optimisation and self-ConfiguRATion in wirelEss networkS) project aims at the development of self-organisation methods to enhance the operations of wireless access networks, by integrating network planning, configuration and optimisation into a single, mostly automated process requiring minimal manual intervention.
