Systems and methods for network element clustering for ran monitoring

Abstract

Systems and methods for network element clustering include identifying a plurality of network elements, each network element configured to send and receive a plurality of data packets across a communications network, assigning each network element of the plurality of network elements to a cluster of a first plurality of clusters according to a location of each network element, determining a distance between each network element assigned to a cluster and a centroid of the cluster, executing an optimization algorithm using the distances to reassign the plurality of network elements to clusters of a second plurality of clusters that reduces a cost value of the optimization algorithm, generating a matrix indicating an assignment of each network element of the plurality of network elements to a cluster of the second plurality of clusters, and routing one or more data packets received from the plurality of network elements according to the generated matrix.