Preliminary study on the enhancement of WCDMA technology with SON functionality

Details on the assumptions and designs of the simulator and its verification (primarily through feasibility studies) are sketched together with exemplary qualitative and quantitative results concerning its operation. These results prove that the imitation of conditions in a wireless communications network is possible with a designed part of an IRSON simulator for any vendor and network operating in any geographic location. At this level, processes inside the system of a WCDMA network can be monitored in the direction of optimal handover management, but other mechanisms are consecutively implemented to flexibly join various technologies (inter-RAT), layers (multi-frequency) and deployments (macro-, micro-, pico- or femto-cell) within a coherent and exact tool. Apart from the planning, optimization and management of an actual network, another practical application of IRSON concerns the design of new features for future mobile telecommunication technologies.