Title
Automated Test Location Selection For Cellular Network Upgrades.
Abstract
Cellular networks are constantly evolving due to frequent changes in radio access and end user equipment technologies, applications, and traffic. Network upgrades should be performed with extreme caution since millions of users heavily depend on the cellular networks. Before upgrading the entire network, it is important to conduct field evaluation of upgrades.The choice and number of field test locations have significant impact on the time-to-market and confidence in how well various network upgrades will work out in the rest of the network. We propose a novel approach -- Reflection to automatically determine where to conduct the upgrade field tests to accurately identify important features that affect the upgrade and predict for the performance of untested locations. We demonstrate its effectiveness using real traces collected from a major US cellular network as well as synthetic traces.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2896377.2901505
SIGMETRICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
cellular network, diagnosis, test planning
Radio access,Test plan,End user,Computer science,Network simulation,Computer network,Upgrade,Cellular network,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
44
1
0163-5999
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4266-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mubashir Adnan Qureshi1131.62
Ajay Mahimkar220617.45
Lili Qiu33987284.13
Zihui Ge484755.97
Sarat C. Puthenpura511.16
Nabeel Mir600.34
Sanjeev Ahuja700.34