Using Ontologies to Simplify Wireless Network Configuration

Today's global telecommunication infrastructure is growing in complexity, making it more difficult to manage and operate effectively. In this paper we examine the problems of simplifying configuration tasks and thus reducing operating expenditure (OPEX) for wireless telecom operators. Our approach is to use ontologies to capture networking information as well as the domain and expert knowledge needed for network configuration tasks. After semantically enriching the representation of the radio access network model, we will show how complex configuration tasks that manipulate the existing network models can be simplified. Furthermore we show how task complexity can be reduced by the use of formal ontologies.