Mobile Network Automation

Keynotes, Panels, Invited Talks, Tutorials, Books

H. Sanneck, Janne Ali-Tolppa, et al.
Native Network Intelligence - 5G-Advanced baseline and 6G perspective
Invited talk at ITU ML for Communication Networks Workshop, “AI for Good” summit, Geneva, July 2023.
(a short version of this talk was presented at TechDays 2023, Munich, Germany, June 2023)

S. Mwanje, C. Mannweiler (eds.)
Towards Cognitive Autonomous Networks - Network Management Automation for 5G and Beyond, Wiley, ISBN 978-1-119-58638-8, October 2020.
(Co-author chapters 1, 4, 12)

Cognitive Autonomous Networks demo: PLANAR

H. Sanneck
Unleashing the true power of Autonomous Networks
Panel statement at IEEE Globecom, Madrid, Spain, December 2021.
(Video)

C. Mannweiler, H. Sanneck, S. Mwanje
The Role of Cognitive Autonomy in “5G and Beyond"
Tutorial at 25th VDE / ITG Mobilkomtagung, Osnabrück, Germany, November 2021.
(Slides)

H. Sanneck, S. Mwanje, J. Ali-Tolppa, M. Kajo
„Cognitive Autonomy” through AI: a case study in Network Automation
Invited talk at VDE "Future of Networking" conference, NetSys, Lübeck, Germany, September 2021.

H. Sanneck, S. Mwanje, J. Ali-Tolppa, M. Kajo
Towards Cognitive Autonomous Networks (CAN): 5G and Beyond
Invited talk at ITU "AI for Good", May 2021.
(Video)

H.Sanneck, S. Mwanje, J. Ali-Tolppa, M. Kajo
Cognitive Network Management in Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems
Invited talk at IISc EECS Research Students Symposium 2021, Bangalore, India, May 2021.

A. Chiong, C. Ang, H. Sanneck, V. Ram
5G, AI and Mobile Networks of the Future
Panel, SG Innovate, ITU-T Standardization Bureau, July 2020.
(Video)

H. Sanneck, J. Ali-Tolppa, S. Redana
AI/ML-Enabled Cognitive Connectivity Infrastructures
Panel statement, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference VTC 2020 Spring, May 2020.

H. Sanneck, J. Ali-Tolppa
AI for (B)5G Network Automation
Invited talk at ITU Workshop on Machine Learning for 5G @ Berlin 5G Week, Berlin, Germany, November 2019.

H. Sanneck
Beyond 5G and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Panel statement, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EUCNC), Valencia, Spain, June 2019.
(Video, Videoblog summary by the panel organizer)

H. Sanneck
The future of the telecom companies business with AI: Challenges & Opportunities
Panel statement, "AI in the telecommunications industry" panel, ETSI Summit on Artificial Intelligence, Sophia Antipolis, France, April 2019.
(Meeting report, docs)

H. Sanneck, C. Mannweiler, J. Ali-Tolppa, L. Bodrog, S. Kocsis, B. Schultz
Addressing 5G Network Management Challenges with Machine Learning
Industry keynote at VDE / ITG Mobilkomtagung, Osnabrück, Germany, May 2018.

H. Sanneck
5G Network Slicing Management for Challenged Network Scenarios
Industry keynote at 12th ACM Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS'17), Snowbird, UT, USA, October 2017.
(Slides)

M. Pahl, A. Clemm, H. Lutfiyya, H. Sanneck, B. Stiller, N. Zincir-Heywood
Managing Hyperconnected Entities - but how ?
Panel at IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2016.

S. Hämäläinen, H. Sanneck, C. Sartori (eds.)
LTE Self-Organizing Networks (SON) - Network Management Automation for Operational Efficiency, Wiley, ISBN 978-1-119-97067-5, December 2011.

H. Sanneck
Management Frameworks for Future Mobile Communication Networks: Main Challenges
Invited talk at "Management Frameworks for Future Mobile Communication Networks" Workshop at Future Networks & Mobile Summit 2013, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2013.

H. Sanneck
Managing Mobile Networks for Service Delivery: technology vs. use cases
Keynote at 6th International IFIP/IEEE Workshop on Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.

S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck
Reliable Operation of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with SON (Self-Organizing Networks)
Tutorial at 9th International Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), Budapest, March 2013.

H. Sanneck
Self-Organization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Keynote at International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks (ICIN), Berlin, Germany, October 2012.

H. Sanneck, A. Lobinger
Operating Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with SON (Self-Organizing Networks)
Tutorial at 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Hamburg, Germany, September 2012.

K. Mallinson, H. Sanneck, T Rambold, L. Vanthomme
The Ultimate Picture: Self-Evolving Networks ?
Panel at Informa's Self Organizing Networks conference 2011, London, England, October 2011.

H. Sanneck
Self-Organizing Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Keynote at Broadband Convergence Networks Workshop, IM 2011, Dublin, Ireland, May 2011.

AI/ML-enabled Network Intelligence

H. Sanneck, J. Ali-Tolppa
Inhärente Intelligenz in Kommunikationsnetzen
in VDE ITG News, October 2023.

H. Sanneck, J. Urban
Chancen und Herausforderungen der Künstlichen Intelligenz in Telekommunikationsnetzen
in VDE ITG News, January 2019.

H. Sanneck, J. Ali-Tolppa, L. Bodrog, S. Kocsis, B. Schultz
Machine Learning applied to Automation in 5G Management & Orchestration
in IWPC Workshop on Open Networks, SDN & Virtualization Towards Telco-Cloud, Oxford, England, March 2018.
(Recording)

C. Mannweiler, H. Sanneck
Cognitive management of multi-service multi-tenant 5G mobile networks
in ITG Technical Report #263: Mobile Communications - Technologies and Applications, VDE Verlag, 2016.

H. Sanneck, C. Mannweiler
Cognitive Network Management –automation for multi-tenant 5G mobile networks
in IWPC workshop on "Forging a Path to Autonomous 5G Networks” , Cologne, Germany, June 2016.
(Recording)

Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis

T. Tsvetkov, J. Ali-Tolppa, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
An Experimental System for Verifying Topology Changes in Mobile Communication Networks
in IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2017.

T. Tsvetkov, J. Ali-Tolppa, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
Verification of Configuration Management Changes in Self-Organizing Networks
in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 3(4), December 2016.

T. Tsvetkov, J. Ali-Tolppa, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Steiner Tree-Based Verification Approach for Handling Topology Changes in Self-Organizing Networks
in 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management 2016 (CNSM), Montreal, Quebec, November 2016.

G. Ciocarlie, C. Corbett, E.  Yeh, C. Connolly, H. Sanneck, M. Naseer-Ul-Islam, B. Gajic, S. Novaczki, K. Hatonen
Diagnosis Cloud: Sharing Knowledge Across Cellular Networks
in 12th International Conference on Network and Service Management 2016 (CNSM), Montreal, Quebec, November 2016.

T. Tsvetkov, J. Ali-Tolppa, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Minimum Spanning Tree-Based Approach for Reducing Verification Collisions in Self-Organizing Networks
in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Istanbul, Turkey, April 2016. (Best Paper Award)

T. Tsvetkov, C. Frenzel, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Constraint Optimization-Based Resolution of Verification Collisions in Self-Organizing Networks
in IEEE Globecom 2015, San Diego, CA, December 2015.

S. Novaczki, T. Tsvetkov, H. Sanneck
A Scoring Method for the Verification of Configuration Changes in Self-Organizing Networks
in 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Santander, Spain, September 2015.

G. Ciocarlie, E. Yeh, C. Connolly, C. Corbett, U. Lindqvist, H. Sanneck, K. Hätönen, S. Novaczki, M. Naseer-Ul-Islam, B. Gajic
Alarm Prioritization and Diagnosis for Cellular Networks
in 7th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Santander, Spain, September 2015. (Best Paper Award)

T. Tsvetkov, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Graph Coloring Approach for Scheduling Undo Actions in Self-Organizing Networks
in IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Ottawa, Canada, May 2015.

G. Ciocarlie, C. Cheng, C. Connolly, U. Lindqvist, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck, M. Naseer-ul-Islam
Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis for Automatic Radio Network Verification
in 6th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Würzburg, Germany, September 2014.

T. Tsvetkov, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Post-Action Verification Approach for Automatic Configuration Parameter Changes in Self Organizing Networks
in 6th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Würzburg, Germany, September 2014.

G. Ciocarlie, C. Cheng, C. Connolly, U. Lindqvist, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck, M. Naseer-ul-Islam
Managing Scope Changes for Cellular Network-level Anomaly Detection
in 4th IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organising Networks, Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

G. Ciocarlie, C. Cheng, C. Connolly, U. Lindqvist, K. Nitz, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck, M. Naseer-ul-Islam
SONVer: SON Verification for Operational Cellular Networks
in 4th IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organising Networks, Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

T. Tsvetkov, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Configuration Management Assessment Method for SON Verification
in 4th IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organising Networks, Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

T. Tsvetkov, H. Sanneck, G. Carle
An Experimental System for SON Verification
in 4th IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organising Networks, Barcelona, Spain, August 2014.

G. Ciocarlie, U. Lindqvist, K. Nitz, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck
On the Feasibility of Deploying Cell Anomaly Detection in Operational Cellular Networks
in  IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Krakow, Poland, May 2014.

G. Ciocarlie, U. Lindqvist, K. Nitz, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck
DCAD: Dynamic Cell Anomaly Detection for Operational Cellular Networks
in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), Krakow, Poland, May 2014.

G. Ciocarlie, U. Lindqvist, S. Novaczki, H. Sanneck
Detecting Anomalies in Cellular Networks Using an Ensemble Method
in 9th International Conference on Network and Service Management, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2013.

Policy-based Network Management

C. Frenzel, C. Schmelz, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer
Objective-Driven Coordination in Self-Organizing Networks
in IEEE 26th Annual Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Hong Kong, August 2015.

C. Frenzel, T. Tsvetkov, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer, G. Carle
Operational Troubleshooting-enabled Coordination in Self-Organizing Networks
in 6th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Würzburg, Germany, September 2014.

C. Frenzel, T. Tsvetkov, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer, G. Carle
Detection and resolution of ineffective function behavior in Self-Organizing Networks
in IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Sydney, Australia, June 2014.

C. Frenzel, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer
A Fuzzy, Utility-based Approach for Proactive Policy-based Management
in 7th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML 2013), Seattle, WA, USA, July 2013.

R. Romeikat, H. Sanneck, T. Bandh
Efficient, Dynamic Coordination of Request Batches in C-SON Systems
in 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Self-Organising Networks, Dresden, Germany, June 2013.

C. Frenzel, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer
Rational Policy System for Network Management
in IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.

C. Frenzel, H. Sanneck, B. Bauer
Automated Rational Recovery Selection for Self-Healing in Mobile Networks
in 2nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks, Paris, France, August 2012.

R. Romeikat, B. Bauer, H. Sanneck
An Integrated SON Experimental System for Self-Optimization and SON Coordination
in 2nd International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks, Paris, France, August 2012.

R. Romeikat, B. Bauer, H. Sanneck
Automated Refinement of Policies for Network Management
in 17th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications, Sabah, Malaysia, October 2011.

R. Romeikat, B. Bauer, H. Sanneck
Modeling of Domain-Specific ECA Policies
in International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Miami Beach, FL, USA, July 2011.

T. Bandh, R. Romeikat, H. Sanneck, H. Tang
Policy-based coordination and management of Self-Organizing-Network (SON) Functions
in IFIP / IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Dublin, Ireland, May 2011. (a preliminary version of this work has been presented at the VDE/ITG workshop on "Consistent system optimization in 3G/4G wireless networks", Stuttgart, Germany, October 2010.)

T. Bandh, H. Sanneck, R. Romeikat
An Experimental System for SON Function Coordination
in International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.

H. Sanneck, C. Schmelz, T. Bandh, R. Romeikat, G. Carle, B. Bauer
Policy-driven Workflows for Mobile Network Management Automation 
in 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, Caen, France, June 2010.

Self Configuration

Stephen S. Mwanje, Janne Ali-Tolppa, Henning Sanneck
On the Limits of PCI Auto Configuration and Reuse in 4G/5G Ultra Dense Networks
in 11th International Conference on Network and Service Management 2015 (CNSM), Barcelona, Spain, November 2015.

P. Szilágyi, H. Sanneck
Multi-vendor Auto-Connectivity in Heterogeneous Networks
in IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Ghent, Belgium, May 2013.  

P. Szilágyi, T. Bandh, H. Sanneck
Physical Cell ID Allocation in Multi-layer, Multi-vendor LTE Networks
in 4th International Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, Hamburg, Germany, September 2012. (Best Paper Award)

P. Szilágyi, H. Sanneck
LTE Relay Self-Configuration
in IFIP / IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management, Dublin, Ireland, May 2011.

T. Bandh, H. Sanneck
Automatic Site Identification and Hardware-to-Site-Mapping for Base Station Self-configuration
in International Workshop on Self-Organizing Networks, Budapest, Hungary, May 2011.

Voice over IP Quality-of-Service

H. Sanneck, W. Mohr, L. Le, C. Hoene, and A. Wolisz
Quality of Service Support for Voice Over IP over Wireless
in S. Dixit and R. Prasad (Eds.), Wireless IP and Building the Mobile Internet, Chapter 10, Artech House, Norwood, MA, USA, December 2002.

H. Sanneck, N. Le, M. Haardt and W. Mohr
Selective Packet Prioritization for Wireless VoIP
in Fourth International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communication, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001.

H. Sanneck, N. Le, A. Wolisz, G. Carle
Intra-Flow Loss Recovery and Control for VoIP
in Proceedings ACM Multimedia 2001, Ottawa, Canada, September 2001.
(Paper [PDF])
(Slides [HTML/JPG])

H. Sanneck, N. Le, A. Wolisz
Efficient QoS Support for Voice-over-IP Applications Using Selective Packet Marking
in First International Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Computing and Networking (IMMCN 2000), pp. 553-556, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, February 2000 (Special Session on Error Control Techniques for Real-time Delivery of Multimedia Data)
Revised version:
H. Sanneck, N. Le, G. Carle
Effiziente Dienstqualitätsunterstützung für IP Telefonie durch selektive Paketmarkierung
in First IP-Telephony Workshop, pp. 139-144, Berlin, Germany, April 2000.
(Slides, English)

H. Sanneck, N. Le
Speech Property-Based FEC for Internet Telephony Applications
in Proceedings of the SPIE/ACM SIGMM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference 2000 (MMCN 2000), pp. 38-51, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2000.
(Slides)

H. Sanneck
Adaptive Loss Concealment for Internet Telephony Applications
in Proceedings INET '98, Geneva, Switzerland, July 1998.
(Slides)

H. Sanneck
Concealment of Lost Speech Packets Using Adaptive Packetization
in Proceedings IEEE Multimedia Systems, pp. 140-149, Austin, TX, USA, June 1998.

H. Sanneck, A. Stenger, K. Ben Younes, B. Girod
A New Technique for Audio Packet Loss Concealment
in Proceedings IEEE Global Internet 1996 (Jon Crowcroft and Henning Schulzrinne, eds.), pp. 554-557, London, England, November 1996.

D. Sisalem, M. Smirnov, H. Sanneck, J. Kuthan
Towards the Next Generation Multimedia IP-Telephony
in Next Generation Internet in Europe, ACTS Project InfoWin (AC 113), pp. 16-19, ISBN 3-00-004250-4, 1999.

Queue management algorithms for Multimedia traffic

H. Sanneck, M. Zander
A Comparison of Queue Management Algorithms for Intra-Flow Loss Control
in Proceedings of the International Conference on Communications (ICC 2000), New Orleans, LA, USA, June 2000.

H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Queue Management Algorithm for Intra-Flow Service Differentiation in the "Best Effort" Internet
in Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '99), pp. 419-426, Natick, MA, USA, October 1999.
(Slides)

H. Sanneck, G. Carle
Predictive Loss Pattern Queue Management for Internet Routers
in Internet Routing and Quality of Service, S. Civanlar, P. Doolan, J. Luciani, R.Onvural, Editors, Proceedings SPIE Vol.3529A, pp. 205-216, Boston, MA, USA, November 1998.
(Slides)

IP over ATM

A. Acharya, F. Ansari, M. Ott, H. Sanneck
Dynamic QoS support for IP Switching using RSVP over IPSOFACTO
in International Symposium on Broadband European Networks (SYBEN '98), Zurich, Switzerland, May 1998.

L. Salgarelli, A. Corghi, H. Sanneck, D. Witaszek
Supporting IP Multicast Integrated Services in ATM Networks
in Broadband Networking Technologies, Seyhan Civanlar, Indra Widjaja, Editors, Proceedings SPIE Vol.3233, pp. 78-88, Dallas, TX, USA, November 1997.
(Slides)

H. Sanneck, D. Witaszek, T. Zseby, M. Smirnov
MULTICUBE - IP Multicast over ATM Research
in Next Generation Internet in Europe, ACTS Project InfoWin (AC 113), pp. 97-103, ISBN 3-00-004250-4, 1999.

H. Sanneck
The Integrated Services Architecture and RSVP
in Richard Zurawski (Ed.): The Industrial Information Technology Handbook. CRC Press 2005, ISBN 0-8493-1985-4

H. Sanneck, G. Carle
A Framework Model for Packet Loss Metrics Based on Loss Runlengths
in Proceedings of the SPIE/ACM SIGMM Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference 2000 (MMCN 2000), pp. 177-187, San Jose, CA, USA, January 2000.
(Slides)

G. Carle, H. Sanneck, M. Schramm
Adaptive Hybrid Error Control for IP-based Continous Media Multicast Services
in First International Workshop on Quality for future Internet Services (QofIS 2000), Berlin, Germany, September 2000.

G. Carle, H. Sanneck, D. Sisalem, M. Smirnow, A. Wolisz, T. Zseby
Dienstqualitätsunterstützung im Internet
in Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation (PIK) 3/98, September 1998.

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