RAN Site Design Auditing for Rule-Compliant 5G Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The high number of cellular RAN sites and numerous design parameters in 5G networks lead to engineering errors that can break design rules and significantly impact KPIs, causing inefficiencies and increased costs in network deployment and maintenance, as individual site designs often lack consideration for nearby sites or regional factors.
Innovation Solution
A computing system performs audits on new and existing RAN sites to ensure compliance with design guidelines, analyzing design parameters and updating them to meet threshold values based on data from other sites within an area of interest, optimizing coverage, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If individual engineers design and configure RAN sites across each AOI, then each site can be customized to local requirements, but the high number of sites and design parameters lead to engineering errors that break design rules and decrease KPIs
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements automated feedback mechanisms by continuously auditing RAN site designs against design rules and guidelines. The auditing system provides real-time feedback to engineers about design compliance, identifying errors and suggesting corrections before deployment, thereby maintaining both customization and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
An automated auditing system serves as an intermediary between individual engineers' design work and the final deployed sites. This intermediary layer checks designs against standardized rules while allowing local customization, preventing errors from reaching production without eliminating engineering flexibility.
2Reliability
If the number of RAN sites is increased to provide better coverage, then network availability improves, but the complexity of managing design parameters across thousands of sites increases engineering errors
Solution Approach 1:
The auditing system provides universal functionality that can evaluate any RAN site design regardless of location or specific configuration. It handles multiple design parameters, site types, and geographic regions through a single unified platform, reducing the complexity of managing thousands of diverse sites.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses template-based design copying with automated validation. Once a compliant site design is established, it can be copied and adapted to multiple locations while the auditing system ensures each copy maintains design rule compliance, reducing repetitive manual work and errors across thousands of sites.
3Productivity
If more design parameters are considered to improve site performance, then KPIs can be optimized, but the number of parameters to manage increases engineering errors
Solution Approach 1:
The auditing system extracts and separates the management of individual design parameters from the overall design process. Each parameter is independently validated against specific rules, allowing engineers to focus on performance optimization while the system handles the complexity of managing numerous parameters through automated checks.
Data Source
AI summary
A computing system receives a selection of a design parameter to be verified that is associated with deployment of a new radio access network (RAN) site. The computing system retrieves a design value of the design parameter from a design data store and one or more threshold values from design guidelines that constrain the design parameter according to site design rules. In response to the design value not satisfying the one or more threshold values, the computing system determines, based on data associated with other RAN site deployments in an area of interest (AOI) that includes a proposed location for the new RAN site, an updated design value that satisfies the one or more threshold values; and replaces, in the design data store, the design value with the updated design value.