A mathematical model for joint optimization of coverage and capacity in Self-Organizing Network in centralized manner

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a mathematical model in the framework of long term evolution (LTE) to solve the problem of coverage and capacity optimization by employing multi-level random Taguchi's Method. The optimization process runs in a centralized manner with no human intervention required and interacts with environment situation automatically. Under the mathematical model which combines coverage and capacity optimization by a coefficient factor, conventional Taguchi's Method transcends traditional trial-and-error approach in convergence speed and simple implementation, to offer even more search capacity, Gaussian shrink coefficient and random optimization offset are applied to the level-to-tilts mapping function. Antenna tilt is an effective interference reduction technique, which has been adopted as the tuning parameter. The simulation results turn out to be better than traditional Taguchi's Method and trial-and-error approach. The system model presented and evaluated also gives an insight to the mathematical model especially the trade-off between coverage and capacity in homogeneous scenario.