Using Informatics to Manage and Measure Performance of Large Femtocell Networks

Jay A Weitzen, Rachel Wakim

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Airvana, Chelmsford, MA, USA.

DOI: 10.4236/jdaip.2015.32003                

Abstract

This paper describes the analytics platform and algorithms that are used to manage network performance of large femtocell networks with close to one million femtocells from multiple vendors. The system incorporates parallel processing of the data, rule based artificial intelligence, and large scale automated data analysis and data mining.

Keywords

Informatics, Femtocells, Wireless Communication, Cellular Communication

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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