In cellular communications technology, self-optimization is a process in which the system’s settings are autonomously and continuously adapted to the traffic profile and the network environment in terms of topology, propagation and interference.
[1] Together with self-planning and self-healing, self-optimization is one of the key pillars of the self-organizing networks (SON) management paradigm proposed by the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance.
[2] The autonomous trait of self-optimization involves no human intervention at all during the aforementioned optimization process.
[3] Low level of self optimization amongst system components leads to Coupling.
High level of self optimization leads to Cohesion