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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<mailto: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<mailto: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<mailto: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



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