An adaptive paging area selection scheme

The pressure of low costs and high capacity has pushed the network operation and management into the era of requiring the self-planning, self-configuration, and self-optimization of the networks. Many solutions used in the legacy planning, installation, and operation are therefore insufficient to meet the challenges. New approaches of network operation and management are thus needed, which make the optimum decisions and take the actions automatically. Paging is a key function of most radio access networks. For the paging to work in the "self" manner, the networks need an automatic approach to determine the optimum paging areas in the new era. This work therefore contributes with an adaptive paging area selection scheme. The simulation experiment shows the proposed scheme works automatically and provides significant improvement with its optimum decision.