Kapsch: Reconfiguration of Mobile Phone Networks

Often needed together, simulation and configuration play an important role in industry, from the early development stages as well as after deployment as part of system maintenance. Changes of a system's structure or behavior over time are required because of changing requirements due to new customer needs. For example, the current worldwide willingness to adopt smart power grid technologies raises new challenges regarding the necessary adaptations in the structure and functionality of the existing mobile phone networks. In this chapter, we motivate the importance of both simulation and (re) configuration of mobile phone networks in the context of machine-to-machine communication, in order to deal with future markets of intelligent transportation systems and smart metering. We discuss our SIMOA approach for simulation and (re) configuration that is based on a system model and system requirements. The approach has the following advantages: it is flexible and adaptable to various systems and needs, it determines the system's capabilities to handle certain requirements, and suggests system adaptations in cases where the requirements cannot be satisfied.