• A cell outage management framework for dense heterogeneous networks 

      Onireti, Oluwakayode; Zoha, Ahmed; Moysen, Jessica; Imran, Ali; Giupponi, Lorenza; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Article)
      In this paper, we present a novel cell outage management (COM) framework for heterogeneous networks with split control and data planes - a candidate architecture for meeting future capacity, quality-of-service, and energy ...
    • Data-driven analytics for automated cell outage detection in Self-Organizing Networks 

      Zoha, Ahmed; Saeed, Arsalan; Imran, Ali; Imran, Muhammad Ali; Abu-Dayya, Adnan ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference)
      In this paper, we address the challenge of autonomous cell outage detection (COD) in Self-Organizing Networks (SON). COD is a pre-requisite to trigger fully automated self-healing recovery actions following cell outages ...
    • HCBLS: A Hierarchical Cluster-Based Location Service in Urban Environment 

      Aissaoui, Raik; Dhraief, Amine; Belghith, Abdelfettah; Menouar, Hamid; Mathkour, Hassan; ... more authors ( Hindawi , 2015 , Article)
      Vehicle location information is central tomany location-based services and applications inVANETs. Tracking vehicles positions and maintaining an accurate up-to-date view of the entire network are not easy due to the high ...
    • A learning-based approach for autonomous outage detection and coverage optimization 

      Zoha, Ahmed; Saeed, Arsalan; Imran, Ali; Imran, Muhammad Ali; Abu-Dayya, Adnan ( John Wiley and Sons , 2015 , Article)
      To be able to provide uninterrupted high quality of experience to the subscribers, operators must ensure high reliability of their networks while aiming for zero downtime. With the growing complexity of the networks, there ...