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User-centred planning of broadband communications networks, including QoE

Through the more and more digitized society, a reliable communication infrastructure is indispensable. In the meantime, a stable broadband connection is not only important for business customers, but also contributes to our daily lives – whether for cloud computing, video conferencing, IPTV or interactive games. Today’s networks do not differ in the quality of service and are designed with an average data rate per user. This is not optimal, since not every user per area has the same need. Therefore, it is important to make the network expansion more efficient in such a way that it takes account of the customer’s behavior and expectation, and at the same time checks whether this is also implemented. In this way, the resources can be aligned more precisely to the specific needs of the customers and costs can be saved. The optimal state can be derived from the quality of service (QoS) that can be measured in the network and the quality of experience (QoE), which is experienced by the user. When these values ​​are adjusted, a network planning and optimization can be applied which is adapted to the users. Efficient planning functions are extracted from the research results and integrated into commercial software for the planning of telecommunications networks. Network designers are thus given the opportunity to apply the latest research results directly to the optimization of resource use and to provide their customers with optimal bandwidths with better quality of experience with the same resources. Both, networks and users benefit from this.