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H2020Staff exchange2017–2022

SONNET · Self-OrganizatioN towards reduced cost and eNergy per bit for future Emerging radio Technologies

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-01-01 → 2022-06-30
EU contribution
€886,500
Participants
4
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Self-OrganizatioN towards reduced cost and eNergy per bit for future Emerging radio Technologies

SONNET considered a complex context-aware heterogeneous network that is slowly becoming a 5G reality, and merged the notion of SO (self-organising) with radio connectivity protocols such as network sharing and CoMP (Coordinated Multipoint) to enhance the SON (SO Networks) coverage within the mobile network in contrast to today´s network. We investigated the notion of SO CoMP and SO network sharing, as key technologies to reduce cost and energy per bit in legacy and future emerging mobile technologies. Project Objectives: Objective 1: Context-Aware Architectures for RAN (Radio Access Networks); Objective 2: SO Network Sharing for Wireless Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Networks; Objective 3: SO-CoMP for Cost and Energy per Bit Reduction; Objective 4: Experimentation of SONNET Solutions Under Real Practical Conditions Impact on Society: In a mobile ecosystem that currently hosts a plethora of mobile operators, including virtual counterparts, competition is as strong as ever, raising the bar further on the quality of any potential mobile product entering the market. The introduction of new mobile services/products will come at a price: higher energy consumption and higher costs for maintaining the network. Mobile operators have to solve those two contentious issues in order to successfully continue offering competitive services and benefit the connected society at large. SONNET aims to address these issues by providing enhanced mobile services with lower costs and energy consumption through employing context-aware SON.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

A revelation in today´s mobile is networks is SON (Self-Organizing technology) technology, which is seen as a playing pivotal role towards reducing the management costs of networks. In legacy networks, still many network elements and associated parameters are manually configured. The associated operations costs are significant. Specialized expertise must be maintained to tune these network parameters, and the existing manual process is time-consuming and potentially error-prone. In addition, this manual tuning process inherently results in comparatively long delays in updating values in response to the often rapidly changing network topologies and operating conditions, resulting in sub-optimal network performance. SON is capable of collecting information from the network, so as to perform self-configuration, self-optimization, self-healing and etc, so as to reduce the operation cost through less human involvement, and to optimize the service quality through robust and prompt network optimization. In this proposal, we aim to drive further cost savings in the way networks are managed today by amplifying further the coverage zone of SON within the network. We believe that key technologies such as network sharing and Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) can benefit from SON technology solutions. We will consider a complex context-aware heterogeneous network that is slowly becoming a 5G reality, and investigate the notion of SON CoMP and SO network sharing, as key technologies to reduce cost and energy per bit in legacy and future emerging mobile technologies.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • GREENSPHERE UNIPESSOAL LDA · AGUEDACoordinatorPortugal
  • LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY LBG · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • PANEPISTIMIO PATRON · RIO PATRASGreece
  • SIGINT SOLUTIONS LTD · NicosiaCyprus

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union