Controlling self healing cellular networks using fuzzy logic

Abstract

Wireless cellular communication networks is undergoing a transition from being a simply optional voice communication to becoming a necessity in our everyday lives. In order to ensure uninterrupted high Quality of Experience for subscribers, network operators must ensure 100% reliability of their networks without any discontinuity either for planned maintenance or breakdown. This paper demonstrates self healing capability to the fault recovery process for each cell. It is proposed to compensate cells in failure by neighboring cells optimizing their coverage with antenna reconfiguration and power compensation resulting in filling the coverage gap and improving the QoS for users. The right choice of these reconfigured parameters is determined through a process involving fuzzy logic control and reinforcement learning. Results show an improvement in the network performance for the area under outage as perceived by each user in the system. © 2012 IEEE.