SON management demonstrator

The demonstrator shows a self-management system for heterogeneous mobile radio communication networks as developed in the European FP7 SEMAFOUR project. The self-management system uses operator-defined objectives regarding, e.g., network capacity, network load, or network robustness, to automatically configure and control the operation of Self-Organising Network (SON) Functions. The SON Functions are instrumented as to contribute to the operator objectives. Changing objectives or their priorities leads to a reconfiguration of the SON Functions. The demonstration uses three SON Functions, namely, Mobility Load Balancing, Mobility Robustness Optimisation and Coverage and Capacity Optimisation, and the impact of changing objectives can be traced in the demonstrator's realistic network scenario and the network's Key Performance Indicators.