Automatic root cause analysis based on traces for LTE self-organizing networks

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 20-28

  Gómez Andrades, Ana ^a   Barco, Raquel ^a   Serrano, Immaculada ^b   Delgado, Patricia ^b   Caro Oliver, Patricia ^b   Muñoz, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

CELL LEVELS; LTE NETWORKS; MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS; MOBILE OPERATORS; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SELF-HEALING; SELF-ORGANIZING NETWORK; TOP DOWN MODELS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84977119406     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2016.7498071     Document Type: Article

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