Zero touch management: A survey of network automation solutions for 5G and 6G networks

E Coronado, R Behravesh… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile networks are facing an unprecedented demand for high-speed connectivity
originating from novel mobile applications and services and, in general, from the adoption …

From 4G to 5G: Self-organized network management meets machine learning

J Moysen, L Giupponi - Computer Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Self-organization as applied to cellular networks is usually referred to Selforganizing
Networks (SONs), and it is a key driver for improving Operations, Administration, and …

Challenges in 5G: how to empower SON with big data for enabling 5G

A Imran, A Zoha, A Abu-Dayya - IEEE network, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While an al dente character of 5G is yet to emerge, network densification, miscellany of node
types, split of control and data plane, network virtualization, heavy and localized cache …

Coordinated multi-point clustering schemes: A survey

S Bassoy, H Farooq, MA Imran… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile data traffic grew by 74% in 2015 and it is expected to grow eight-fold by 2020. Future
wireless networks will need to deploy massive number of small cells to cope with this …

5G communications race: Pursuit of more capacity triggers LTE in unlicensed band

A Al-Dulaimi, S Al-Rubaye, Q Ni… - IEEE vehicular …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fifth-generation (5G) network developers need to identify the necessary requirements
toward additional capacity and spectrally efficient wireless technologies. Therefore, the …

On swarm intelligence inspired self-organized networking: its bionic mechanisms, designing principles and optimization approaches

Z Zhang, K Long, J Wang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by swarm intelligence observed in social species, the artificial self-organized
networking (SON) systems are expected to exhibit some intelligent features (eg, flexibility …

Comprehensive survey on self-organizing cellular network approaches applied to 5G networks

H Fourati, R Maaloul, L Chaari, M Jmaiel - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Self-Organizing Network (SON) stands for a key concept characterizing the
behavior of the future mobile networks. The evolution of telecom infrastructures towards 5G …

Cognition-based networks: A new perspective on network optimization using learning and distributed intelligence

M Zorzi, A Zanella, A Testolin, MDF De Grazia… - IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In response to the new challenges in the design and operation of communication networks,
and taking inspiration from how living beings deal with complexity and scalability, in this …

A cell outage management framework for dense heterogeneous networks

O Onireti, A Zoha, J Moysen, A Imran… - IEEE Transactions …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a novel cell outage management (COM) framework for
heterogeneous networks with split control and data planes-a candidate architecture for …

[HTML][HTML] Handover and load balancing self-optimization models in 5G mobile networks

WK Saad, I Shayea, A Alhammadi, MM Sheikh… - … Science and Technology …, 2023 - Elsevier
The need for load balancing will be more significant in fifth generation mobile network and
beyond due to the massive upsurge in the quantity of users and rising use of small cell sizes …