Self-Organization Towards Reduced Cost and Energy per Bit for Future Emerging Radio Technologies - SONNET

Self-organizing network (SON) is seen as playing a pivotal role towards reducing the management costs of networks for the exposure of 5G and beyond 5G networks. SON is capable of collecting information from the network, so as to perform self- configuration, self-optimization, self-healing, etc., so as to reduce the operation cost through less human involvement, and to optimize the service quality through robust and prompt network optimization. SONNET aims 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. Hence, this paper will give the overview of SONNET project (http://sonnet- project.eu/) by defining the state of art technologies (CoMP, network sharing, SON Context-aware) and innovations brought by SONNET. Moreover, this paper will also highlight the 5G use cases recently standardized by 3GPP, which act as a baseline for novel SONNET use cases proposed in this paper. The selected use cases will be used for demonstration purposes with the aid of Ray tracer and System Level Simulator.