SiMoNe - Simulator for Mobile Networks: System-Level Simulations in the Context of Realistic Scenarios

Today's cellular radio networks offer so many parameters that can be configured, that it is virtually impossible to configure such a system manually. To overcome this problem, operators and vendors put their hope in self-organizing networks (SON). However, the algorithms need to be trusted first, before putting them into a live network. But this can only be done in extensive field tests or in realistic simulation environments. The herein presented Simulator for Mobile Networks (SiMoNe) is capable of performing system-level simulations within realistic network scenarios. By offering the capability of lightweight simulations of parameter variations, a multitude of different settings can be evaluated. It allows for simulations based on time variant maps as well as for simulations with a large number of individual user traces, which follow different mobility patterns like vehicular or indoor mobility.