Collaborative Resource Allocation for Self-Healing in Self-Organizing Networks

The main objectives of a self-organizing network (SON) technology are autonomous network deployment, network performance optimization and real-time adaptation to environmental changes. There are three functionalities in SON, such as self-configuration, self-optimization and self-healing. In this paper, we focus on the self-healing issue with respect to abrupt network faults. In order to solve this problem, we design a healing channel (HC) and propose a collaborative resource allocation (CRA) algorithm based on a modified iterative water-filling (MIWF) algorithm. Through intensive simulations, we show that CRA efficiently supports users in disabled femtocell base stations (FBS) with the little degradation in system capacity.