SON Management Demonstrator

The demonstrator shows a self-management system for heterogeneous mobile radio communication networks as de-veloped 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-Organ-ising Network (SON) Functions. The SON Functions are instru-mented 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 Optimi-sation and Coverage and Capacity Optimisation, and the impact of changing objectives can be traced in the demonstrator's realis-tic network scenario and the network's Key Performance Indicators.?