Method of controlling traffic in a cellular network and system thereof

Abstract

There are provided a method of controlling traffic in a cellular network comprising a plurality of controlled access points (APs) and a system thereof. The method comprises: continuously obtaining data informative of resource utilization with regard to APs of the plurality of controlled APs; processing the obtained data to continuously classify, for a given AP, downlink load with respect to a downlink load threshold and uplink load with respect to an uplink load threshold, thereby giving rise to downlink and uplink classification results, wherein uplink load classification is provided independently of downlink load classification; and enabling provisioning of the given AP in accordance with respective classification results, wherein: provisioning in accordance with downlink classification results comprises changing cell reselection parameters and/or changing cell footprint parameters; provisioning in accordance with uplink classification comprises changing cell selection parameters; and provisioning in accordance with uplink classification is enabled independently of provisioning in accordance with downlink classification.