Autonomous deployment, optimization, and self-healing in beyond 4G wireless networks

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We are targeting the problem of providing wireless access for emerging roadband wireless services with a unified wireless air interface technology. It is desirable to utilize a single wireless technology which is compatible with evolving cellular technologies based on LTE-Advanced. The advantage of using a single technology rather than a hybrid of cellular and WiFi technologies in the same terminal, is simplicity and uniformity in terminal design and network operation. Another major advantage is that of interference management and network capacity. Cellular technologies have been designed from the early cellular systems to have inherent power control and interference management mechanisms that are far more efficient than what can be done with WiFi networks. This approach to the future evolution of wireless systems recognizes that in terms of engineering design wireless technologies such as LTE have strong advantages over technologies such as WiFi in the sense that they were designed for access to a fixed infrastructure versus WiFi networks that were designed mostly for ad-hoc operation where all devices are mobile terminals. However WiFi networks as deployed had very strong advantages such as lost cost access points and ad-hoc deployment by customers. The aim of the project is to take cellular technologies and enhance the air interfaces to allow them to be deployed in great numbers by users and configured autonomously by the system. The autonomous infrastructure