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Kostas Tsagkaris ktsagkatunipi.gr
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Special Issue of International Journal of Network Management on
*Managing Self-Organizing Radio Access Networks * 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/%28ISSN%291099-1190/asset/homepages/Uself_IJNM_ManagingSORAN_CFP_Final_1_.pdf?v=1&s=c802e14a7dec03454cb7d6adff4c5bb77c487ef7>

PUBLICATION: July-August 2013

Self Organizing Networks (SON) were introduced within the 3GPP Long Term 
Evolution (LTE) as a key technology for assisting mobile operators to 
address challenges associated with the operation and management of their 
Radio Access Network (RAN). In particular, SON comprises a set of self-x 
(self-planning, self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing 
etc.) techniques and functions that aim at providing solutions for 
improving network management, performance and flexibility, i.e. for 
automating the traditional manual network management processes, for 
reducing the network operation cost, and for increasing efficiency 
(higher Quality of Service/Experience levels in a more cost efficient 
manner).
SON has received particular attention in 3GPP, starting from Release 8, 
where a set of use cases with regards to self-configuring and 
self-optimizing networks namely, Coverage and capacity optimization, 
Energy Savings, Interference Reduction, Automated Configuration of 
Physical Cell Identity, Mobility robustness optimization, Mobility Load 
balancing optimization, RACH Optimization, Automatic Neighbour Relation 
Function, and Inter-cell Interference Coordination, were introduced. SON 
is continued with amendments in releases 9 and 10. SON-related aspects 
are a work in progress and will continue being standardized in the 
subsequent releases of LTE as an indispensable part of the standard. 
Apparently, there is also still plenty of room for further research results.
The extension/enhancement of SON use cases and proposals for solving 
them comprise mechanisms for traffic, mobility and interference 
management, energy efficient RANs, SON in heterogeneous networks in 
LTE-Advanced (HetNets) as well as in multi radio access technology and 
multi layer networks, SON for QoS optimization etc. At the same time, 
the management of SON functions per se, as well as their 
coordination/interactions, is an equally important topic that leaves 
room for advancements with respect to coordination of SON functions, SON 
conflict resolution, governance and policy-based approaches for managing 
SON and SON coordination, but also aspects covering SON 
integration/coordination with traditional Operation, Administration and 
Management (OAM) functions and systems i.e. Operation Support Systems, 
Network Management Systems, Element Management Systems (OSS/NMS/EMS) etc.
Accordingly, this special issue of International Journal of Network 
Management is seeking new and unpublished contributions addressing 
issues in the Management of Self-Organizing RANs including, but not 
limited to:

o    SON optimization algorithms for heterogeneous LTE-Advanced networks 
(HetNets)
o    SON optimization algorithms for traffic, mobility and interference 
management
o    SON optimization algorithms for energy efficient RANs
o    Coordination of SON functions
o    SON conflict resolution
o    Governance/Policy-based management of SON
o    Knowledge-based SON
o    SON management architecture aspects
o    SON integration with OAM functions/systems
o    Self-Evolving Networks (Self-Testing & Self-Healing)
o    Realistic performance evaluation of SON functionalities before 
network deployment
o    Reduction of management costs in SON empowered RANs
o    Decision support systems provided by policy-based management of SON 
functionalities
o    Service-oriented SON management (Service Level Agreements etc.)

*IMPORTANT DATES*
Deadline for submissions: *December 15, 2012*
Notification of acceptance:     March 1, 2013
Revised papers to editors due date: April 1, 2013
Final camera-ready to Wiley: May 1, 2013
Publication Date:            July-August 2013

*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES*
Electronic submission using the manuscript central 
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nem is required. The author will be 
called to select the special issue and name of guest editor during 
submission. Author guidelines for the preparation and submission are 
also available at http://www3.interscience.wiley. 
com/journal/5703/home/ForAuthors.html

*GUEST EDITORS*
Dr. Kostas Tsagkaris
Adjunct Lecturer / Senior Research Engineer
Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus,
80 Karaoli & Dimitriou str., 185 34 Piraeus, Greece
e-mail: kts... at unipi.gr

Dr. Markus Gruber
Research Engineer
Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs,
Lorenzstr. 10, 70435 Stuttgart, Germany,
e-mail: markus.gru... at alcatel-lucent.com

Dr. Berna Sayrac
Senior Research Engineer
Orange Labs
38-40 ru du General Leclerc
92130 Issy-Les-Moulineaux France
e-mail: berna.say... at orange.com

Further information on the journal, including author guidelines, are 
available at the journal homepage:
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/networkmanagement

-- 
Dr. Kostas Tsagkaris
Electrical & Computer Engineer
Adjunct Lecturer - Senior Research Engineer
Telecommunication Networks and Services lab
Department of Digital Systems,University of Piraeus
tel:    +30 210 4142772
mob:    +30 6972 875476
email:  kts... at unipi.gr
web:    http://tns.ted.unipi.gr/ktsagkaris/




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