Self Organizing Networks (SON): Challenges and Market Opportunities for LTE and Beyond

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Self Organizing Networks (SON): Challenges and Market Opportunities for LTE and Beyond

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Overview:

The Fourth Generation (4G) of cellular communications based on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard promises much great network capacity. This greater supply of bandwidth will stimulate the development, implementation and operation of many new applications, each with very unique quality of service, bandwidth, and performance needs. It will be a much more complex network and this will facilitate a need for improved operations and OSS. A key driver for improving OSS for 4G systems, the so called Self Organizing Network (SON) has been introduced as part of the 3GPP LTE network framework. SON is expected to be deployed over time and ultimately have a dramatically positive effect on network operations and OSS.

This research evaluates SON capabilities, vendors, and solutions. It analyzes the function of SON relative to LTE and evaluates the benefits of deployment and operation. The report also discusses the future of SON beyond 4G. This research includes a forecast for overall OSS/BSS revenue from 2011 through 2016.

Key Benefits:

-Identify the challenges and opportunities in deploying and operating SON

-Understand specific operations of SON and implications to network OSS

-Understand the benefits and return on investment for SON

-Understand the future of SON, LTE, 5G and beyond

-Identify SON vendor solutions and market positioning

-Comparative analysis of SON vendors/solutions

Companies in Report:

Actix

Alcatel Lucent

AT&T

EarthComm

Ericsson

LightSquared

Motorola

NEC

Nokia Siemens Networks

Optimi

Telstra

T-Mobile

Vodafone

Audience:

Mobile network operators

Wireless infrastructure providers

OSS/BSS vendors and service providers

LTE application developers and service integrators

Managed service providers and service bureau organizations

Table of Contents

Executive Summary 8

Introduction 9

The Evolution of Wireless and Mobile Network 9

Overview 9

Advantages of Wireless Networks 9

Popularity 9

Mobility 10

Ease of Deployment 10

First Generation of Mobile Telecommunications (1G) 11

Second Generation Mobile Telecommunications (2G) 13

SIM 15

Speech Coding 15

Authentications and Security in GSM networks 15

WAP (Wireless Applicant Protocol) 16

Mobile Telecommunications Third Generation 16

Characteristics of 3G Systems 17

The Evolution of the 3G System 18

Applications in 3G System 19

Summary 19

Mobile Telecommunications 4th Generation and LTE 20

Target of 4G System 21

Applications and Services of 4G System 21

TelePresence 21

Information Access 22

Inter-Machine Communication 22

Intelligent Shopping 22

Location-Based Services 22

LBS in General 23

Techniques 24

Cell ID-Based Location 25

Terminal-Based Location Techniques 26

Global Positioning System (GPS) 27

GPS Disadvantages 28

Location Architecture and Interfaces 29

Protocols Based on Plain-Text XML 30

Roaming Location Protocol (RLP) 31

Difference between MLP and RLP 33

Adding Location Value 33

Applications and Content 34

Gaming 36

Globalization of Products 38

Communicating Appliances 38

Standardization Diversification 38

Summary 39

Long Term Evolution and Self Organizing Networks 39

Introduction 39

Future Trends 41

Evolution of the Telecommunication Industry to 2016 42

Future Technologies for a Universal Radio Environment 44

Future Technologies for a Universal Radio Environment TDD System 45

Features of FuTURE TDD System 45

Challenges of the TDD system 46

The Upcoming Technology of TDD System 46

TDD Topology 47

Radio Access Network (RAN) 48

Control Plane and User Plane 48

Peak Data Rate 49

Multiple Access Methods 49

OFDM Modulation 50

Random Access Procedure 51

Self Organizing Networks 53

Introduction 53

Features of Self Organizing Networks 54

The Drivers for SON 55

Release 10 of SON 57

Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) and SON 58

Distributed/Self-organizing (DSO) 60

Cooperative Relaying (CR) in SON 61

Feedback Overhead in SON 61

Codebook-Based Pre-coding in SON 61

Feedback Delay in SON 62

Architecture of SON 62

Self Configuration Networks 64

Installing SON 66

Neighbor Relation (NR) 67

Features of NR 67

Installing NR68

Load Balancing in SON 70

Features of Load Balancing and ROI 70

Case Study on a Load Imbalance Condition 71

Load Balanced Handover within the LTE Network 72

Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) 74

Features of MRO 75

Sub-Optimal System Performance Issues 75

Distributed Clustering in SON 78

SON in High Speed Packet Access (HSPA+) 80

The Benefits of SON and the Return on the Investments (ROI) 81

Self Healing 82

ICIC Enhancement 82

Antenna Parameters and Cost Reduction 83

Energy Saving 84

Methods of Energy Saving 85

Switch ON/OFF in Inter-RAT 86

Cell Outage Detection 87

Cell Outage Compensation 88

Antenna Tilts 90

Features and ROI of the Antenna Tilts 90

Drive Tests 92

Features of Drive Tests (DT) 93

Application of SON 97

LTE Macro Base Station 97

Overcoming Issues of Performance Statistics to a Specific DAS Node Coverage Area 98

Future of the SON in Femto/Pico/Relays 98

LTE Base Stations 98

Repeaters and Relays 99

SON Providers 100

Introduction 100

Markets of Self Organizing Networks and Market drivers 103

Early Adoption of SON 103

Optimi 104

Self-planning, Self-optimization and Self-healing for 2G, 3G and LTE Networks via Optimi 104

Optimi's Clients 104

Ericsson Buys Optimi 105

SWOT Analysis for Optimi 105

Alcatel-Lucent 106

Alcatel Lucent SWOT analysis 108

Alcatel Lucent SON solutions 109

Ericsson VS Alcatel 110

Ericsson 110

Mission/Vision 111

Services 111

Strategy 111

Activities 112

Financial Summary112

Ericsson Subsidiaries in Europe 112

Ericsson in the Rest of the World 115

Ericsson SWOT Analysis 116

Ericsson SON 117

Alcatel 117

Mission/Vision 118

Services 118

Strategy 119

Financial Summary 119

Alcatel Subsidiaries 119

Actix 122

SON by Actix 123

Actix SWOT 124

Vodafone Ireland Deploys Actix 3G Solution 125

NEC and Actix SON 125

Motorola 126

Motorola SWOT 126

Motorola SON Services 127

Features of Motorola SON 128

Operations and Maintenance 131

The Ping-Pong Effect 131

NEC SON 132

SON Provider Comparative Analysis 132

The Future of the LTE (5G and beyond) 134

General Conclusions and the Effect of SON in the LTE 4G (5G and beyond) 134

Appendix 137

Long Term Evolution (LTE) Market and Technology Overview 137

Next Generation Network (NGN) OSS/BSS 143

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