Keynote Speaker

Peter Szilagyi Research Engineer Nokia Siemens Networks Mr. Peter Szilagyi joined Nokia Siemens Networks in 2008 as a core network software developer. A year later, he became a member of the Network Operations and Architecture research team with a focus on Self-Organizing Networks. He was first addressing self-configuration solutions for LTE-Advanced relay nodes, also contributing to 3GPP RAN3 standardization and authoring patents in this topic. Currently, his main interests are researching possible methods of self-healing in 3G and LTE systems, as well as developing proof-of-concept and performance simulations of LTE systems. Peter holds an MSc in software engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE), Budapest, Hungary. In the last two years of his studies Peter has done research on IP routing, IP Fast ReRoute techniques, IP resiliency and microloop prevention, including the development and evaluation of Linux-based prototypes for the problems under investigation.

Talk title: Self organizing networks

Abstract: Self-Organizing Networks (SON) is a framework for network management automation targeting OPEX saving for network operators. The main domains of SON are: self-configuration, focusing on automatic commissioning and parameter setting of network elements; self-optimization, continuously tuning the network to maintain near-to-optimal settings; and self-healing, aiming for automatic fault detection and troubleshooting.

Besides giving an overview about the background of SON, the presentation would introduce use cases from the self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing SON domains, describe the technical and standardization details of the use cases and show an interactive visual demo of their operation.