Supervision and control in cellular systems

The necessity for a novel cellular supervision and control system is described from two points of view. The first view is that increasing service complexity and customer demands are forcing the creation of a supervision and control system that will apply a common database and a unified approach to network management. The other point of view is that a supervision and control system should have improved automatic and remote functions, and should provide the operator with simplified interfaces. The system function structure, which is hierarchical, will permit extensive and sophisticated cellular network operations to effect the required total network operations. The appropriate design objectives are described, and methods for their implementations are discussed