Managing and measuring performance of large femtocell networks

Large femtocell networks with upwards of one million units must be managed differently from macro cell networks with a few tens of thousands of base stations. This paper describes a network performance system that is helping to manage several large femtocell networks. It incorporates parallel processing, rule based artificial intelligence, large scale automated data analysis, and information theoretic data mining. The next generation of automatic femtocell network management system is also discussed.