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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<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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