Patent ID: 11895543
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus configured to operate as a distributed self-organizing network (D-SON) management function in a new radio (NR) network, the apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
send, to a producer of provisioning Management Service (MnS), at least one request to configure at least one target, control parameters, and at least one range of handover parameters for a Mobility Robustness Optimization (MRO) function, the control parameters including MRO function control to enable and disable MRO functionality, a maximum deviation of handover trigger, and a minimum time between handover trigger changes;
send, after transmission of the at least one request, a request to the producer of provisioning MnS to enable an unenabled MRO function for an NR cell;
collect MRO-related performance measurements from the MRO function for the NR cell;
analyze the MRO-related performance measurements to evaluate MRO performance and determine whether the at least one target has been met after optimization of the MRO performance; and
in response a determination that the at least one target has not been met, send, to the producer of provisioning MnS, at least one update request to update at least one of the at least one range of handover parameters or the control parameters; and

memory configured to store the MRO-related performance measurements.