UE-Based Network Capability Scoring for WWAN Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional approaches for optimizing wireless wide area network (WWAN) services struggle to enhance user experience due to the complexity and geographical span of WWAN infrastructure, often failing to provide optimal performance, reliability, and capacity across diverse user equipment and network conditions.
Innovation Solution
A network management system that generates optimization recommendations based on device performance scoring, utilizing UE device types, mobility patterns, application usage, RF conditions, and geospatial connections to automate site placement and capacity offload predictions, suggesting upgrades such as carrier additions, antenna upgrades, and new cell site builds aligned with 5G and LTE standards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional approaches are used for WWAN optimization, then infrastructure complexity is managed, but user experience and network performance cannot be effectively enhanced
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by allowing the network management system to automatically collect UE performance data, generate optimization recommendations, and implement improvements without requiring manual intervention in the complex infrastructure, thus enhancing network performance while managing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring UE-based network capability scores and using this information to generate prescriptive optimization recommendations, creating a closed-loop system that improves network performance while maintaining manageable infrastructure complexity
2Productivity
If UE-based network capability scoring is implemented, then network performance and user experience are enhanced, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses an intermediary approach by introducing a network management system that acts as a mediator between UEs and network infrastructure, collecting and processing UE capability data to generate optimization recommendations without requiring direct complex interactions between individual UEs and infrastructure elements
Solution Approach 2:
The network management system performs multiple functions including data collection, scoring, analysis, and recommendation generation within a single unified platform, reducing overall system complexity while improving network optimization efficiency through consolidated multi-functional processing
Data Source
AI summary
A method for user equipment (UE) based network capability scoring for wireless wide area network management includes receiving parameters associated with a performance of a network, user equipment devices network utilization, and/or user application requirements. The method further includes determining throughput evaluations of data exchanges between UEs and sectors associated with cell sites within the network, and identifying device performance scores based on the throughput evaluations. The device performance scores may be adjusted based on at least one independent metric. The method may evaluate sectors based on the identified device performance scores.