MACHINE LEARNING

TECHNIQUES
A SURVEY OF MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES APPLIED TO SELF-
ORGANIZING CELLULAR NETWORKS
 CONTENTS
• The Era of 5G
• Introduction
• Overview of Machine Learning Algorithms
• Analysis Of Machine Learning Applied in SON
• Future Research Directions
• Conclusions
 THE ERA OF 5G

• Approaches to 5G:
• Massive MiMO
• mm Waves

• Problems is with
• Maintenance
• Optimization
• Failure Detection and Recovery

• Suitable Solution
 SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS(SON’S)

• Overview of Self Organizing Networks

• Machine Learning In SON

• Paper Objective and Contribution

 WHY SON ? (NICE QUESTION)
• Reducing manual intervention or least possible human interaction.
• Atomization of repetitive process.
• Improve runtime operation/optimization based on real time data analysis.
• Improving user experience and network performance.
BASIC FEATURES OF SON
 SELF CONFIGURATION

• All the configuration procedures necessary in order to make the

network operable.
• Self Configuration Use Cases

• Plug & Play : IP Address allocation, Authentication, Software and Configuration

Download from OAM.

• Planning radio parameters of a new eNB: handover & cell selection thresholds,
power settings, etc.

• Establish connectivity with other nodes: Automatic Neighbor Relation (ANR)

 SELF OPTIMIZATION
• Continuous optimization of the BSs and network parameters in
order to guarantee a near optimal performance.
• Self Optimization Use Cases

• Backhaul Optimization

• Coverage and Capacity optimizations

• Antenna parameters optimization

• Interference management

• HandOver (HO) parameters optimization

• Load balancing
 SELF HEALING
• Continuously monitor the system in order to ensure a fast and
seamless recovery.
• Self-diagnosis: create a model to diagnose, learning from past experiences.

• Self-healing: automatically start the corrective actions to solve the problem.

• Significantly reduce maintenance costs.

• Self Healing Use Cases

• Cell outage detection and compensation : Antenna tilt and the cell transmit
power
• Self-healing of board faults
3GPP PROPOSED NETWORK
OVERVIEW OF SELF ORGANIZING NETWORKS
OVERVIEW OF MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS
K-NEAREST NEIGHBOR
 NEURAL NETWORKS

• Used as a Classifier
• Self-Optimization
• Self-Healing
DECISION TREES
SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE
K-MEANS
SELF ORGANIZING MAPS
 CONCLUSION

• Reduction of human intervention.

• Real time optimization of network.

• Control in OPEX and CAPEX for operator.

• SON are flexible, adaptive, resilient.

 THANK YOU !!!!
ANY QUESTIONS ??
• References:
• A Survey of Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Self-Organizing Cellular
Networks Paulo Valente Klaine, Student Member, IEEE, Muhammad Ali Imran,
Senior Member, IEEE, Oluwakayode Onireti, Member, IEEE, and Richard Demo
Souza, Senior Member, IEEE