BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Many significant improvements have been made on different types of self-organizing networks (SONs). For a network at customer premises, for example, a service provider may forward firmware updates to devices with the ability to enter a SON mode. In the SON mode, the device can represent the home network as a single local area network, and may permit mobile wireless devices to establish links to the nearest access point. For networks that service millions of wireless mobile devices, SON components are coupled to other network components in access networks, such as base stations antennas, for example, to modify their beam widths, or to apply various other optimization techniques.

