IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
15-18 April 2018 // Barcelona, Spain
Leading the Way to 5G and Beyond

Program

Preliminary Workshop Program 9:00 – 9:15          Opening and welcome9:15 – 10:30        Session I: SON management and prediction techniques (Session Chair: TBD)

  • Impact of SON Function Combinations on the KPI Behaviour in Realistic Mobile Network Scenarios, (#1570405344): Sören Hahn, Michael Schweins , Thomas Kürner (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany)
  • SON Function Performance Prediction in a Cognitive SON Management System, (# 1570413169): Simon Lohmüller, Fabian Rabe, Andrea Fendt, Bernhard Bauer (University of Augsburg, Germany), Lars Christoph Schmelz, (Nokia, Germany)
  • Heuristic approach for forecast scheduling, (# 1570414341): Hind Zaaraoui, Zwi Altman, (Orange Labs, France, Eitan Altman, (INRIA, and University of Avignon, France), Tania Jimenez, (University of Avignon, France)

10:30 – 10:45     Coffee Break10:45 – 12:15     Session II: Evolution in SON functions (Session Chair: TBD)

  • Automatic Neighbor Relations (ANR) in 3GPP NR, (# 1570414836): Pradeepa Ramachandra, Kristina Zetterberg, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Reza Moosavi, Sakib Bin Redhwan, (Ericsson Research, Sweden) Stefan Engström, (Ericsson AB, Sweden)
  • SON for Mobile Backhaul, (#1570413747): Lajos Bajzik, Tamas Karasz, Zoltán Vincze, Csaba Vulkán, (Nokia Bell Labs, Hungary), Wssal Ben ameur, Zwi Altman, Vincent Diascorn, (Orange Labs, France)
  • Predicting Strongest Cell on Secondary Carrier using Primary Carrier Data (#1570413182): Henrik Rydén, Joel Berglund, Martin Isaksson, Rickard Cöster, Fredrik Gunnarsson, (Ericsson Research, Sweden)
  • Distributed Energy Saving Management in Multi-Layer 4G/5G Ultra-Dense Networks, (#1570405096): Stephen S. Mwanje, Janne Ali-Tolppa (Nokia Bell Labs, Germany)

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